misnumber

American  

[mis-nuhm-ber] / mɪsˈnʌm bər /

verb (used with object)

misnumbered, misnumbering

1. to assign the wrong identifying number to.

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misnumbered misnumbering

The booklets are sometimes sloppy, with misnumbered tracks and erroneous act designations.

From New York Times ● Dec. 31, 2010

At one point, the frustrated musicologists had begun composing a recitative to fill in a gap when the missing part suddently turned up in a misnumbered manuscript.

From Time Magazine Archive

Pg. 22-32: All leaves in this range are misnumbered as 23-33.

From A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful by Peter Martyr; Wherunto is Added A Sermon made of the Confessing of Christ and His Gospel and of the Denying of the same, by Henry Bullinger by Peter Martyr

Some of the page numbers in the original are misnumbered, though the text itself is in the proper order.

From The Sceptical Chymist or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes, Touching the Spagyrist's Principles Commonly call'd Hypostatical; As they are wont to be Propos'd and Defended by the Generality of Alchymists. Whereunto is præmis'd Part of another Discourse relating to the same Subject. by Robert Boyle

Outmaneuvered, the Republicans, led by Michigan's Jerry Ford and Wisconsin's Melvin Laird, hastened publication of their humbler, mimeographed effort by a day, misnumbering the pages in the process.

From Time Magazine Archive