miscollect

present singular third person miscollects · participle present miscollecting · participle past miscollected · past miscollected

1. To make errors in the process of collecting.

   He is compelled to use the greatest care over it that he does not miscollect, fail to collect, or improperly or in any other way discharge his duty.

   1924, United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary, To Provide for a Bureau of Prohibition in the Treasury Department, page 142

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   On the other hand, we all know that it is easy to miscollect, so that the value of the whole hour really is a kind of precaution that we take against undercollecting a specimen or the number of specimens under consideration.

   1968, Lars Stenersen Semb, Johannes Myren, The physiology of gastric secretion, page 592

   The collection mechanism must be resistant to externally applied physical shocks so that it does not miscollect, the friction between the coin and the collection mechanism must be low, and the actuators must generate a large initial force to overcome the load of the collection mechanism.

   1987, Review of the Electrical Communications Laboratories, Volume 35

2. archaicTo misremember.

   "I miscollect, at times, how young you are still," he said. "Too young, really, to have such responsibility."

   1985, Beverly McGlamry, Family Bible, page 116

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   I have not been so punctual in describing Earthquakes, because l love not (whatsoever the Reader may miscollect) I delight not in the Raven-Notes that do befal Recitements at large of those Subjects which I am engaged to treat of; for Who desiresr to be reckoned a baleful inauspicious Bird?

   1699, John Goad, Astro-Meteorologica: or Aphorisms and Large Significant Discourses of the Natures and Influences of the Coelestial Bodies, page 463

   If I miscollect not the sense of the house it is in these then 2 questions: 1. Whether the Lords intermedling in subsidy & voting it in theyr house were a breach of priveledge. 2. Query whether in Conference with us prescribing & chalking the way was not a breach of priveledge.

   1988, Sir Thomas Aston, Judith D. Maltby, The Short Parliament (1640) diary of Sir Thomas Aston, page 75