miscontinueとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

miscontinue (三人称単数 現在形 miscontinues, 現在分詞 miscontinuing, 過去形および過去分詞形 miscontinued)

1. To continue wrongly.
   • 1795, William Hawkins, ‎Thomas Leach, A Treatise of the Pleas of the Crown, page 169:

     As to the seventh particular, viz. Where the process on an appeal, indictment, or information, shall be said to be discontinued, or miscontinued, or put without day.

   • 1887, The Publications of the Selden Society, page 69:

     If two parties are at issue in a praecipe quod reddat, and upon part they are at issue by a panel and upon part they are at issue upon a record – such as bastardy certified, or some other estoppel – and the process is continued against the jury but no day is given for brining in the record, everything is discontinued and not merely miscontinued.

   • 1981, Marang - Volumes 3-6, page 13:

     Poet do not mis-spell our thoughts or miscontinue what is held in our hearts.

   • 2001, Crispin Wright, Rails to Infinity: Essays on Themes from Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations, page 132:

     Now, the application of each of these predicates to X will be defeasible if his subsequent performance is inadequate when measured by a standard implicit in the things he didn't explicitly think about — if he goes on to misuse E, miscontinue the series, cannot whistle the tune, rejects Y's continuing '1002' after '1000' or shows he doesn't understand the rules of chess.