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- adjective
Scanned incorrectly.
Etymologies
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mis- + scanned
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Examples
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Poor Virgil! whose verses, which he took so much pains to polish, have been misscanned, and misparsed, and misinterpreted by so many generations of idle school-boys.
Grandfather's Chair Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834
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