Meanings
present singular third person misnotifies · participle present misnotifying · participle past misnotified · past misnotified
- To notify improperly, giving inaccurate information, or giving the correct information to the wrong people or in the wrong manner.
They had met at ten, misnotified by the boy — though I had given him a written notification to shew them; appointing the hour to meet at 11.
2017, John Quincy Adams, David Waldstreicher, John Quincy Adams: Diaries Vol. 2 1821-18482 more examples
This is a recommendation of the Boyd-Graves Conference based on a Virginia Supreme Court case in which a party was denied appeal as untimely, but the party had been "misnotified" as to the entry of a final order.
1991, The White Paper: Activities of the General Assembly of Virginia, page 91Studies of the accuracy of death certification have revealed that fibrosing alveolitis is underdiagnosed in life and misnotified at death, and therefore the real prevalance is likely to be higher than previously estimated;
1996, D. J. Weatherall, J. G. G. Ledingham, D. A. Warrell, Oxford Textbook of Medicine - Volume 2, page 2786
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