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Definition of Misprint
1. Noun. A mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical failures of some kind.
Generic synonyms: Error, Mistake
2. Verb. Print incorrectly.
Definition of Misprint
1. v. t. To print wrong.
2. n. A mistake in printing; a deviation from the copy; as, a book full of misprints.
Definition of Misprint
1. Noun. An accidental mistake in print. ¹
2. Verb. To make a misprint. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Misprint
1. to print incorrectly [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Misprint
Literary usage of Misprint
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1883)
"Subsequently to the completion of the calculations Professor JC Adams discovered
a misprint in the Tidal Report of 1872, which forms the basis for the ..."
2. Studies of a Biographer by Leslie Stephen (1902)
"is a misprint and in which a deliberate correction of' we.' Still, everything helps.
The microscope has been so useful in natural science that we are ..."
3. American Druggist (1891)
"His process is as follows : Spirit is heated in a lamp to 148° F. [248° F.
in the original, which is evidently a misprint], and connected by a yard of ..."
4. A Bibliographical and Critical Account of the Rarest Books in the English by John Payne Collier (1865)
"... and contains some emendations in the handwriting of (he poet, such as the
misprint of " a dance " for advance, in the first line of p. 215. ..."
5. Letters and Other Writings of James Madison by James Madison (1865)
"... at so late a day, the misprint in the "Enquirer" to which you refer, because
I take for granted that a correct expression of what you said on the 4th of ..."
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