miscontinue

present singular third person miscontinues · participle present miscontinuing · participle past miscontinued · past miscontinued

1. To continue wrongly.

   Poet do not mis-spell our thoughts or miscontinue what is held in our hearts.

   1981, Marang - Volumes 3-6, page 13

   3 more examples

   As to the seventh particular, viz. Where the process on an appeal, indictment, or information, shall be said to be discontinued, or miscontinued, or put without day.

   1795, William Hawkins, Thomas Leach, A Treatise of the Pleas of the Crown, page 169

   If two parties are at issue in a praecipe quod reddat, and upon part they are at issue by a panel and upon part they are at issue upon a record – such as bastardy certified, or some other estoppel – and the process is continued against the jury but no day is given for brining in the record, everything is discontinued and not merely miscontinued.

   1887, The Publications of the Selden Society, page 69

   Now, the application of each of these predicates to X will be defeasible if his subsequent performance is inadequate when measured by a standard implicit in the things he didn't explicitly think about — if he goes on to misuse E, miscontinue the series, cannot whistle the tune, rejects Y's continuing '1002' after '1000' or shows he doesn't understand the rules of chess.

   2001, Crispin Wright, Rails to Infinity: Essays on Themes from Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations, page 132