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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
miscopy .
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Examples
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There was a veterinary nutrition text that referenced an older text, but miscopied the information left out a "not", or put one in, I forget which, thus resulting in a text that said the exact opposite of the truth.
Making Light: Scholarly works to avoid citing at all costs 2010
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It gets miscopied, mistranslated, misinterpreted, so that what we have today is but a shadow of the magnificent original.
How to do ID: (1) Find a shark. (2) Jump it. - The Panda's Thumb 2009
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Caveat that some of the names in the genealogies, especially in the upper reaches, may have been misunderstood, miscopied, legendary figures turned into ancestors e.g.
Brittonic names in ‘Anglo-Saxon’ genealogies, and vice versa Carla 2009
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Bede says that Paulinus arrived in Britain in 601, so maybe the ASC compiler muddled up the dates and the events - which always makes me wonder what else they muddled up or miscopied.
Dating the Battle of Chester Carla 2007
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I should think it more probable that the writer (who may have been copying a kind of notation with which he was not familiar) miscopied the sign of
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It contained passages that had been miscopied in or entirely omitted from the more recent copy in which Morhion had first read about the myth of the Shadowking.
Curse of the Shadowmage Anthony, Mark, 1966- 1995
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The first printed cookbooks were recipe collections dating from the Middle Ages, often miscopied from old manuscripts.
Savoring The Past Wheaton Barbara Ketcham 1983
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The first printed cookbooks were recipe collections dating from the Middle Ages, often miscopied from old manuscripts.
Savoring The Past Wheaton Barbara Ketcham 1983
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But I must have miscopied it, or else the Martians didn't have the objective I thought they did in it, because I could find no alteration of genes affecting lung capacity or oxygen utilization.
Rebels of the Red Planet Charles Louis Fontenay 1962
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Christian (on the basis of Apostolic precepts) who miscopied Acts, xi, 26, into the form of the afore-mentioned canon 1, and then added the other precepts — canon 9 reproduces the decree of Acts, xv, 29.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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