miscertify

present singular third person miscertifies · participle present miscertifying · participle past miscertified · past miscertified

1. To certify something that does not meet the criteria for certification.

   Thus, there may be no protection against the possibility that signing authorities miscertify.

   2001, Proceedings of the Java Virtual Machine Research and Technology Symposium, page 55

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   No officer belonging to the King's bench, common pleas or exchequer, nor any clerk of assise, clerk of the peace, town-clerk, or any officer under them, nor any other, shall conceal any indictment, fine, post-fine, issue, amercement, forfeited recognizance or other forfeiture, unless by order of court; nor shall they miscertify any of the same ; on pain to forfeit the treble value of what they conceal or miscertify; one moiety to the King, the other to the prosecutor; and also on pain to lose his office, and be incapable of any office where any part of the King's revenue is managed or paid.

   1739, John Cay, An Abridgment of the Publick Statutes in Force and Use

   When did the enforcement staff first recognize the trend to miscertify? The day it became an economic advantage to miscertify.

   1980, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Stripper Oil Miscertification, page 35