misarrange
English
Etymology
Verb
misarrange (third-person singular simple present misarranges, present participle misarranging, simple past and past participle misarranged)
- To incorrectly arrange
- 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], chapter III, in Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC, page 42:
- which often became ridiculous from his misarranging the triads and quaternions with which he loaded his sentences
References
- “misarrange”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.