miscertify

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ certify

Verb

miscertify (third-person singular simple present miscertifies, present participle miscertifying, simple past and past participle miscertified)

1. To certify something that does not meet the criteria for certification.
   • 1739, John Cay, An Abridgment of the Publick Statutes in Force and Use:

     No officer belonging to the King's bench, common pleas or exchequer, nor any clerk of assise, clerk of the peace, town-clerk, or any officer under them, nor any other, shall conceal any indictment, fine, post-fine, issue, amercement, forfeited recognizance or other forfeiture, unless by order of court; nor shall they miscertify any of the same ; on pain to forfeit the treble value of what they conceal or miscertify; one moiety to the King, the other to the prosecutor; and also on pain to lose his office, and be incapable of any office where any part of the King's revenue is managed or paid.

   • 1980, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Stripper Oil Miscertification, page 35:

     When did the enforcement staff first recognize the trend to miscertify? The day it became an economic advantage to miscertify.

   • 2001, Proceedings of the Java Virtual Machine Research and Technology Symposium, page 55:

     Thus, there may be no protection against the possibility that signing authorities miscertify.