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misline en · VERB

Etymology

From mis- + line.

Meanings

1. To incorrectly divide into lines.
   • If the addition was in verse, he might set it up as prose or misline it, placing perhaps too many or too few feet in a line and thus throwing out the whole arrangement of the verse. 1931, Lawrence Counselman Wroth, The Johns Hopkins Alumni Magazine, page 338:
   • The author apparently mislined his verse here, as both texts place the words at the end of l. 60 but correctly end l. 61 with 'weepe' 1952, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, Cyril Tourneur, The Honest Mans Fortune, page 159:
   • Both compositors had some difficulty with lineation, but X mislined his copy only eight times whereas Y mislined his stint twenty-two times, often in more serious ways. 1981, Christopher Marlowe, Fredson Bowers, The Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe, page 6:

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