miscodify

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verb

To codify in an incorrect way.

Scrabble 20

Meanings

verbmiscodify (third-person singular simple present miscodifies, present participle miscodifying, simple past and past participle miscodified)

present singular third person miscodifies · participle present miscodifying · participle past miscodified · past miscodified

  1. raretransitiveTo codify in an incorrect way.

    Claims examiners may miscodify services rendered.

    1988, Elizabeth Hogue, Preventing fraud and abuse: a guide for medicare and medicaid providers
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    The nonsubstantive updates and corrections cure printing and engrossing errors; correct erroneous division and section crossreferences; substitute references to specific effective dates; recodify miscodified sections […]

    1987, Ohio Legislative Service Commission, Summary of Enactments, page 32

    If the contemporary Confucians' approach can be called "mystify Chinese (and Confucian) philosophy" and the philologists and historians like Hu Shi's approach can be called "nullify Chinese (and Confucian) philosophy," then this comparative approach can be labeled as "miscodify Chinese (and Confucian) philosophy."

    2008, Jeffrey L. Richey, Teaching Confucianism, page 175

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