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

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Etymology

Origin of miscopy

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

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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 George Washington Cable

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 George Washington Cable

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 Charles Louis Fontenay

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 George Washington Cable

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