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Definition of Misnumbering
1. misnumber [v] - See also: misnumber
Lexicographical Neighbors of Misnumbering
Literary usage of Misnumbering
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents: Travels and Explorations of the by Reuben Gold Thwaites, Jesuits (1896)
"A similar device is adopted as to chapter misnumbering, eg Chapitre XXX. [ie XXIX.].
A difference in the typographic style of the documents presented in the ..."
2. The Works of George Berkeley, D.D., Bishop of Cloyne by George Berkeley, John Dewey, Ferdinand Gregorovius, George Sampson, Annie Hamilton, Arthur James Balfour Balfour (1898)
"... revised numbering appears correctly in both indexes, the original scheme is
reverted to in the body of the text by an accidental misnumbering of sects. ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1855)
"Archbishop Usher appeared as a beggar at a curate's gate, and was reproved by
the curate's wife for misnumbering the commandments, as being eleven ; but it ..."
4. Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York Public Library (1897)
"misnumbering 62 as 71]; $3 signed [signing A2 as A3, misprinting M2 as L2; var.: E2
as '2']; map, slip, and 47 engravings on printed leaves. ..."
5. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1905)
"... those actually deceived, was the same as though the misnumbering of the
certificates had been adopted with an actual intent to deceive and defraud. ..."
6. A century of printing. The issues of the press in Pennsylvania, 1685-1784 by Charles Swift R. Hildeburn (1885)
"101-274. Signatures Y to Rr. Signature LI, pp. 149-152, is followed by Mm. pp.
253-256, and the misnumbering is continued throughout the volume. ..."
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