misgather

Verb

misgather (third-person singular simple present misgathers, present participle misgathering, simple past and past participle misgathered)

1. To accumulate or assemble incorrectly.
   • Some leaves have been lost or misgathered; the MS., however, affords no indication for deciding which of these suppositions is correct.1859, Roger Bacon, edited by John Sherren Brewer, Fr. Rogeri Bacon: opera quædam hactenus inedita, page 375
   • Several days were devoted to the examination of a cloud of witnesses, for and against; establishing character here, and destroying it there; — and more neighborhood and family secrets, scandal, odds, ends, and intervals of speech, and misgathered testimony were soon upon the wing, than it was...1870, Henry A. Bragg, Tekel, page 235
2. To infer or conclude incorrectly.
   • Thus we sometimes misgather those things (the sun for example) to be hot themselves, which produce heat in others; those to be cold, which cause sense of cold; those most, which leave an impression of moisture where noe wasor was unfelt before their operation: yet is the moon neither cold nor moist...1844, Thomas Jackson, The Works of Thomas Jackson, D.D
   • Secondly, I have gathered from your testimony, though I mention it because I want to be correct if I misgather it, that NASA is an operating agency, not an intelligence agency.1963, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations, Government Information Plans and Policies, page 478