misgathering

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
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