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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misdate.

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Examples

  • And what about Hitler's famous January 30, 1939 “prophecy” of extermination; a speech delivered before England had guaranteed Poland, before the commencement of hostilities, before American entry into the war Buchanan mentions, though doesn't analyze, the speech in his book; he also misdates the address.

    Daimnation!: Hitler's "prophecy" 2008

  • If someone misses the date in the corner or if there is a software error that misdates it, old news can get circulated as if it is new news.

    Give My Regards to President Hoover « Whatever 2008

  • Or perhaps he means the letter to John Murray in which Byron reports (and misdates) Shelley's death.

    Accident Rieger, James 1967

  • The critic, misreading the evidence, misdates all these books, and so the argument means nothing to him.

    Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942

  • ’ A. Text and title from B, which corrects four lines, and misdates ’81.

    Notes 1918

  • Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, which misdates his death by two years; most of the chief medieval historians, WILLIAM OF MALMESBURY, MATTHEW PARIS etc., and later standard works, LINGARD etc.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

  • On her public entry (which Knox misdates by a month) her idolatry was rebuked by a pageant of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.

    John Knox and the Reformation Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 1905

  • Carlyle's anxious Letters to Mrs. Carlyle, whose long delay in writing to him he mistakenly attributed to unwillingness to write instead of to the real cause, illness and want of the proper postal address; he misdates some of Mrs. Carlyle's Letters, gives garbled extracts from others, and entirely suppresses some very important ones.

    New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1893

  • On her public entry (which Knox misdates by a month) her idolatry was rebuked by a pageant of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.

    John Knox and the Reformation Andrew Lang 1878

  • A. Text and title from B, which corrects four lines, and misdates '81.

    Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Now First Published Gerard Manley Hopkins 1866

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