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miscollecting

miscollecting is the present participle and gerund of miscollect.

Meaning of 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
  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

Questions about miscollecting

What is miscollecting the present participle and gerund of?
Miscollecting is the present participle and gerund of miscollect.

Words near miscollecting in the dictionary

  1. miscollating
  2. miscollation
  3. miscollations
  4. miscollect
  5. miscollected
  6. miscollecting
  7. miscollects
  8. miscollocation
  9. miscollocations
  10. miscolocalization
  11. miscolor

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