misrestore

present singular third person misrestores · participle present misrestoring · participle past misrestored · past misrestored

1. To restore improperly; to err in the restoration of.

   Note that Labat, RSO32.117, 121 misrestores and consequently mistranslates this passage.

   2005, Diagnoses in Assyrian and Babylonian Medicine, page 711

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   Using vase paintings, it has been possible to correct the arm positions that the Naples Museum had misrestored.

   2003, Louis Crompton, Homosexuality and Civilization, page 29

   The musician plays the long-necked lute, and the fact that its neck extends up towward the right-hand dancer's face, while the middle part of the instrument has been virtually obliterated by water streaming in through the vault, caused the Spanish team to identify the woman as a flautist—and perhaps to misrestore her right hand.

   2004, Garth Fowden, Quṣayr ʻAmra: Art and the Umayyad Elite in Late Antique Syria, page 67