Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To punctuate wrongly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To punctuate wrongly or incorrectly.
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- verb transitive To
punctuate incorrectly .
Etymologies
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mis- + punctuate
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= All editors, misled no doubt by 37, mispunctuate this passage, placing a comma before _quorum_ instead of after: this destroys the gerundive _quorum ... appellandorum_, leaving the pentameter without a construction.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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