miscancel

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English

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Etymology

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From mis- +‎ cancel.

Verb

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miscancel (third-person singular simple present miscancels, present participle miscancelling or (US) miscanceling, simple past and past participle miscancelled or (US) miscanceled)

  1. To cancel by mistake.
    • 1911, Ainslee's - Volume 26, page 137:
      No one will ever discover it, and, if they do, the lady has only to say that she stupidly miscanceled.
    • 2012, Klaus Wandelt, Surface and Interface Science, Volumes 1 and 2:
      The optical path external to the UHV chamber has to be purged with dry air, or held at rough vacuum, so that water vapor and CO2 levels in the optical path are held at a constant level to avoid miscanceled absorptions obscuring vital parts of the IR spectrum.
  2. To make a mistake in the process of cancelling.
    • 1973, Acta Universitatis Carolinae: Medica - Volume 19, page 287:
      The prescriptions are sometimes irresponsibly written by general practitioners. We usually find miscancelled prescriptions arranged for the purpose of abuse.
    • 1983, The Book Collector - Volume 32, page 52:
      So many copies have come down to us in which the title-page of the preliminaries is miscancelled, indeed , that it is surprising that we know of only one in which the earlier title-page is bound as printed.
    • 2007, American Philatelist and Year Book of the American Philatelic Association, Volume 121, page 120:
      Over a period of about two months, which encompassed more than 20,000 pieces of incoming mail to one company, I was able to determine that more than seven percent of automated letter mail either was not being canceled or was being miscanceled enough to miss the stamps.