misrestore

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ restore

Verb

misrestore (third-person singular simple present misrestores, present participle misrestoring, simple past and past participle misrestored)

1. To restore improperly; to err in the restoration of.
   • 2003, Louis Crompton, Homosexuality and Civilization, page 29:

     Using vase paintings, it has been possible to correct the arm positions that the Naples Museum had misrestored.

   • 2004, Garth Fowden, Quṣayr ʻAmra: Art and the Umayyad Elite in Late Antique Syria, page 67:

     The musician plays the long-necked lute, and the fact that its neck extends up towward the right-hand dancer's face, while the middle part of the instrument has been virtually obliterated by water streaming in through the vault, caused the Spanish team to identify the woman as a flautist—and perhaps to misrestore her right hand.

   • 2005, Diagnoses in Assyrian and Babylonian Medicine, page 711:

     Note that Labat, RSO32.117, 121 misrestores and consequently mistranslates this passage.