misreforming

Verb

misreform (third-person singular simple present misreforms, present participle misreforming, simple past and past participle misreformed)

1. (obsolete) To make a misreform; to reform badly or in error.
   • And more then this he foysteth in to his translation the worde necessarie in steed of flagitare videntur, And thus like a bungling botcher he patcheth togither those vncertainties of Cassander to make himselfe and others a deceitfull safegarde of greater comfort and benefit for the soule which he...1632, T. T., An Appendix To The Whetstone

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