miscommand

Verb

miscommand (third-person singular simple present miscommands, present participle miscommanding, simple past and past participle miscommanded)

1. To command incompetently.
   • If a Governour make a new Sacrament, I will not obey, because: his command is null, and the thing simply evil. If he miscommand a Circumstance of Time, or Place, or Gesture, I will consider the consequents.1659, Richard Baxter, Five Disputations of Church-government and Worship, page 423
   • If either the superiors miscommand, or the inferiors disobey, it is an affront to peace.1808, Joseph Hall, The Works

Noun

IPA/ˈmɪskəˌmænd/

miscommand (countable and uncountable, plural miscommands)

1. Incompetence at commanding.
   • This applied to the privates in the ranks, and to officers in the highest grades. The attempt to smother up and to stifle investigation ordered to be made late the miscommand of its members who have brought disgrace upon its name, gives us a painful reply.1873 December 27, “Ther National Guard”, in The United States Army and Navy Journal, volume 11, number 26, page 316
   • While he finished that glass, he managed to pay devoted attention to both charmers, meanwhile spieling away with a masterly miscommand of English to the large group that now surrounded him.1961, The Reader's Digest - Volume 78, page 204