mistested

Verb

mistest (third-person singular simple present mistests, present participle mistesting, simple past and past participle mistested)

1. (transitive) To incorrectly test.
   • This is because they test at a very small, 0 to 1/8 inch, gage length and can mistest a wool with a tender section or break.1964, Richard A. O'Connell, “Physical Evaluation of Wool Properties”, in Technical Wool Conference: Held May 13-15, 1964, page 129
2. (obsolete, transitive) To hostilely set challenges for.
   • Although it mought be somewhat dangerous, just hereabouts, to confess yourself a sodger of King George—let me tell you, that, being against you, I am not the person to mistest you on that head, by spreading the news abroad, or setting a few dozen of whigs upon your scent, which is a thing easily...1893, John Pendleton Kennedy, Horse Shoe Robinson: A Tale of the Tory Ascendency, page 73

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