mispublish

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ publish

Verb

mispublish (third-person singular simple present mispublishes, present participle mispublishing, simple past and past participle mispublished)

1. To publish in a way that contains errors.
   • 1788 April 14, Charles Lee, Letter from Charles Lee to Gen. Washington (published in 1905, Documentary History of the Constitution of the United States of America, 1786-1870, page 579):

     With regard to the proposed constitution, it seems that the newspapers have mispublished the delegates from Kentucky and the governor informs me that they are to a man opposed to it —He seems to be fixing in favor of it, and this stroke of the Judiciary will have some effect upon his mind and perhaps on the minds of others shewing the incompetency ofour present government to maintain us in society.

   • 1875, The Oriental Sporting Magazine, page 336:

     In a Produce Stakes he had declared the former as Zelmyra, but observing some months afterwards that the name had been misprinted or mispublished as Zulima (probably owing to the Secretary of the meeting mistaking one filly for the other), the owner entered Zelmyra in 1839 for a race at the Curragh as Zelmyra with "sister to Argirio" added.

   • 1996, John G. Hanhardt, Matthew Yokobosky, Gregory J. Markopoulos, Gregory J. Markopoulos, page 124:

     "Towards a New Sound Complement for Motion Pictures," pp. 87-93 [originally mispublished as Part 4 of the four-part essay "Correspondences of Smell and Visuals" in Film Culture, no. 46 (Fall 1967), pp. 38-39].

   • 2008, Nicholas Cahill, Household and City Organization at Olynthus, page 321:

     Many finds in houses A 11–A 13 were mispublished because of confusion in the labeling of rooms.