misfiguring

Verb

misfigure (third-person singular simple present misfigures, present participle misfiguring, simple past and past participle misfigured)

1. To miscalculate; to make a computational error.
   • But you make another mistake — you misfigure dates again — and you've got something more to answer for.1960, South of The Angles Jessamyn West, page 166
2. To make an incorrect assessment.
   • "Now, see here, mister, you get right back into that brush, a bargain's a bargain and you're not near the tree yet." “But I'se jest—” “Never mind now, you just misfigured a trifle, that's all, and I stay in the open till the tree is reached.”1891, Outing - Volume 18, page 380
3. To misrepresent or disguise.
   • If M W, at any time seemes to make some slender explication of himselfe in some of these particulars, he soone misfigures againe his owne expression with words of manifest inconsistency therewith: so that the setled judgement of the Author in the Question controverted, must be some where else...1641, John Goodwin, Impedit Ira Animum, Or Animadversions Upon Some of the Looser and Fouler Passages in a Written Pamphlet Intituled., page 6
4. To disfigure.
   • Section 1427: makes it a misdemeanour for anyone not the owner wilfully to injure, misfigure, remove or destroy the work of art, and, similarly Section 1428: provides that the person who wilfully or maliciously cuts, tears, defaces, disfigures, soils, obliterates, breaks or destorys an object of...1959, Barnett Hollander, The International Law of Art, for Lawyers, Collectors, and Artists, page 247
5. To err in the manufacture of an optical surface so that it causes distortions.
   • If the flat rim of the center axicon is misfigured in such a way that its best fit plane is not perpendicular to the axis of symmetry of the center axicon ( defined in a least squares sense ) this deviation will […]1980, Richard N. Shagam, William C. Sweatt, Optical Alignment: Proceedings : July 29-31, 1980, page 111

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