misdecipher

Verb

misdecipher (third-person singular simple present misdeciphers, present participle misdeciphering, simple past and past participle misdeciphered)

1. To decipher incorrectly.
   • Then a number of these mistakes are corrected and lines necessary for sense recovered by modern editors from the previous editions themselves, which effectually shows that the plays were transcribed, and that these mistakes were largely made from misdeciphering the manuscript, as no printer...1881, George Gould (of Bermondsey.), Corrigenda and Explanations of the Text of Shakspere, page 53
   • Spinden completely misdeciphers this I. S. He gives two variant readings, both based upon incorrect decipherments of the terminal date, as follows:1938, Sylvanus Griswold Morley, The Inscriptions of Petén - Volume 3, page 128