Definition of Misdividing

1. Verb. (present participle of misdivide) ¹

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Definition of Misdividing

1. misdivide [v] - See also: misdivide

Lexicographical Neighbors of Misdividing

misdirects
misdisposition
misdistinguish
misdistinguished
misdistinguishes
misdistinguishing
misdistribute
misdistributed
misdistributes
misdistributing
misdistribution
misdistributions
misdivide
misdivided
misdivides
misdividing (current term)
misdivision
misdivisions
misdo
misdoer
misdoers
misdoes
misdoing
misdoings
misdone
misdonne
misdoom
misdoubt
misdoubted
misdoubtful

Literary usage of Misdividing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Symbolism of Churches and Church Ornaments: A Translation of the First by Guillaume Durand (1906)
"... and ministers of the Church, either invoking God with barbarisms and solecisms, or not understanding and misdividing the words which they pronounce. ..."

2. English Metrists in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: Being a Sketch by Thomas Stewart Omond (1907)
"... triple-time ' dactyl' of English prosody, but strangely finding the former in " Hame came my | gude- man, and | . . ." (ibid.), and misdividing Jean ..."

3. Oliver Optic's Magazine by Oliver Optic (1875)
"... western part of New York State, sends a knight's tour; but one can only be made from an eight-line verse, long metre, without misdividing the syllable. ..."

4. Contributions to the Study of Elliptical Words in Modern English by Karl Sundén (1904)
"The adjective that in MnE. has the form sulky, appeared in ME. as sulken. From misdividing the substantival derivative sulken-ness as ..."

5. The Panchatantra: A Collection of Ancient Hindu Tales in the Recension by Pūrṇabhadrasūri, Johannes Hertel (1908)
"By misdividing at the seventh syllable, and taking the T for the mark of punctuation | , Hindu MSS. and the Calcutta text read ..."

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