miscontinue

English

Etymology

Verb

miscontinue (third-person singular simple present miscontinues, present participle miscontinuing, simple past and past participle miscontinued)

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.