miscodify
English
Etymology
Verb
miscodify (third-person singular simple present miscodif, present participle ies, simple past and past participle miscodified)
- (transitive, rare) To codify in an incorrect way.
- 1987, Ohio Legislative Service Commission, Summary of Enactments, page 32:
- The nonsubstantive updates and corrections cure printing and engrossing errors; correct erroneous division and section crossreferences; substitute references to specific effective dates; recodify miscodified sections […]
- 1988, Elizabeth Hogue, Preventing fraud and abuse: a guide for medicare and medicaid providers:
- Claims examiners may miscodify services rendered.
- 2008, Jeffrey L. Richey, Teaching Confucianism, page 175:
- If the contemporary Confucians' approach can be called "mystify Chinese (and Confucian) philosophy" and the philologists and historians like Hu Shi's approach can be called "nullify Chinese (and Confucian) philosophy," then this comparative approach can be labeled as "miscodify Chinese (and Confucian) philosophy."