¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Misplaces
1. misplace [v] - See also: misplace
Lexicographical Neighbors of Misplaces
Literary usage of Misplaces
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Observatory by Royal Astronomical Society (Gran Bretaña), Royal Greenwich Observatory, NASA Astrophysics Data System Abstract Service, Royal astronomical society GB (1892)
"If Mr. Gwyn Elger finds that Neison puts Fra Mauro B in the correct latitude and
longitude, this only proves that Neison misplaces one or both of the other ..."
2. The Observatory (1892)
"... according to an observation of ray own made with a 2-inch spy-glass and power
of 64, Neison in his Map XIII. misplaces this crater ..."
3. The Diagnosis of Nervous Diseases by James Purves-Stewart (1906)
"Get the patient to talk spontaneously, and observe whether he talks fluently or
misplaces words or syllables, whether he talks in disjointed phrases, ..."
4. Science for the School and Family by Worthington Hooker (1894)
""As a bookbinder," says Phillips, "sometimes neglects to bind in a particular
leaf, so Nature sometimes omits a particular rock; but she never misplaces the ..."
5. Manual of Geology: Practical and Theoretical by John Phillips (1855)
"As a bookbinder sometimes neglects to bind in a particular leaf, so nature
sometimes omits a particular rock; but she never misplaces the rocks, ..."
6. The Concordance Repertory of the More Characteristic Symptoms of the Materia by William Daniel Gentry (1892)
"misplaces words in s. and writing. Bov. Omits words when writing or s. Cham. ...
confused thoughts; s. cr writes wrong words or syllables; misplaces words. ..."
7. The True Figure and Dimensions of the Earth ... in a Letter Addressed to by Johannes von Gumpach (1862)
"What the late Literary Gazette " misplaces" on the charts, the Athenaeum, as we
have seen, "misplaces" on the Earth itself. Both labour under the same ..."
Other Resources:
