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misdictate en · VERB

Etymology

From mis- + dictate.

Meanings

1. To dictate incorrectly. ▸ To utter the wrong words when giving dictation.
   • If, as sometimes happens, the teacher misdictates, the true speed should be announced immediately after the dictation. 1953, Louis A. Leslie, Methods of Teaching Gregg Shorthand, page 188:
   • If something bad happens on account of a badly written report, the commandant can always evade responsibility by saying he wasn't the one who wrote it; it was the clerk, who misinterpreted what was misdictated. 1987, Augusto Roa Bastos, I, the Supreme, page 362:
   • Otherwise the critic is unsure whether a garbled text is miscopied or misdictated or both. 1976, Douglas K. Stuart, Studies in Early Hebrew Meter, page 11:
   • Scratch that: Use this phrase to delete a word or phrase you have misdictated, not a word or phrase that has been misunderstood by your voice-recognition software. 2002, Lyn Clark, Voice recognition with software applications, page 8:
2. To dictate incorrectly. ▸ To cause or command the wrong effect; to mislead.
   • Unless my thoughts misdictate me, A secret Judgment, in this Act , May doubtlesly discerned be To shew GOD's hand was in the fact. 1875, George Wither, Miscellaneous Works of George Wither - Volume 4, page 32:
   • However, how much of the public image of the lawyer in the real estate transaction is influenced by the public's disenchantment with the organized bar and how much is misdictated by the commercial title insurer is problematical. 1979, James M. Pedowitz, Title Insurance and You: What Every Lawyer Should Know!, page 38:

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