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misdictate

verb

Etymology

From mis- + dictate.

  1. borrowed from dictātum — “a thing said, something dictated”
  2. prefixed as misdictate — “mis + dictate”

Definitions

  1. To dictate incorrectly.

    • If, as sometimes happens, the teacher misdictates, the true speed should be announced immediately after the dictation.
    • Otherwise the critic is unsure whether a garbled text is miscopied or misdictated or both.
    • 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.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA