miscollect

Verb

miscollect (third-person singular simple present miscollects, present participle miscollecting, simple past and past participle miscollected)

1. To make errors in the process of collecting.
   • He is compelled to use the greatest care over it that he does not miscollect, fail to collect, or improperly or in any other way discharge his duty.1924, United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary, To Provide for a Bureau of Prohibition in the Treasury Department, page 142
   • On the other hand, we all know that it is easy to miscollect, so that the value of the whole hour really is a kind of precaution that we take against undercollecting a specimen or the number of specimens under consideration.1968, Lars Stenersen Semb, Johannes Myren, The physiology of gastric secretion, page 592
2. (archaic) To misremember.
   • I have not been so punctual in describing Earthquakes, because l love not (whatsoever the Reader may miscollect) I delight not in the Raven-Notes that do befal Recitements at large of those Subjects which I am engaged to treat of; for Who desiresr to be reckoned a baleful inauspicious Bird?1699, John Goad, Astro-Meteorologica: or Aphorisms and Large Significant Discourses of the Natures and Influences of the Coelestial Bodies, page 463
   • "I miscollect, at times, how young you are still," he said. "Too young, really, to have such responsibility."1985, Beverly McGlamry, Family Bible, page 116