miscopy

American  

[mis-kop-ee] / mɪsˈkɒp i /

verb (used with object)

miscopied, miscopying

1. to copy incorrectly.

   to miscopy an address.

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noun

miscopies plural

1. an incorrect copy.

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• miscopies
  plural

Etymology

Origin of miscopy

First recorded in 1815–25; mis- ¹ + copy

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

miscopy miscopied miscopying

To miscopy is far easier—we have only to mimic the act and murder the art.

From The Amateur Garden by Cable, George Washington

But I must have miscopied it, or else the Martians didn't have the objective I thought they did in it, because I could find no alteration of genes affecting lung capacity or oxygen utilization.

From Rebels of the Red Planet by Fontenay, Charles Louis

About this copying: no art is more inoffensively imitated than gardening but unluckily none is more easily, or more absurdly, miscopied.

From The Amateur Garden by Cable, George Washington

I therefore doubt that the inscription has been miscopied.

From Notes and Queries, Number 17, February 23, 1850 by Various

I suppose one reason why even the miscopying of gardens provokes so little offence is that the acts it mimics have no art it can murder.

From The Amateur Garden by Cable, George Washington