misunite

Verb

misunite (third-person singular simple present misunites, present participle misuniting, simple past and past participle misunited)

1. To unite that which does not belong together.
   • This, it may be supposed, is the original reading; this verse, just as v. 16, belongs neither to the gragment of an historical narrative, which is preserved in vv. 14f (with which modern commentators generally misunite those two verses), nor to the legend, vv. 17 ff., but to the Epitomist whose...1904, The Sacred Books of the Old Testament, page 270
   • The disposition of the words, syllables, and letters is much as my copy represents. Words are misunited; and words are broken apart, often, apparently, at haphazard.1905 April-June, Robert Burkitt, “A Kekchí Will of the Sixteenth Century”, in American Anthropologist, volume 7, number 2, page 272
2. To unite badly.
   • […] fracture of the right clavical which was badly misunited and which according to him did not cause the plaintiff any disability but only a disfigurement .1955, All India Reporter - Volume 5, page 219
   • The bony fragments are misunited because the fracture was never reduced by a doctor prior to bony repair.2016, Max M. Houck, Forensic Anthropology, page 292