Definitions
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- noun An inaccurate recital.
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- noun An
inaccurate recital .
Etymologies
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Examples
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He attempted to convince the Supreme Court that one of its members had deliberately made a misrecital, in the order committing Terry for contempt, and treated this as a mitigation of that individual's subsequent attack on Justice Field.
Personal Reminiscences of Early Days in California with Other Sketches; To Which Is Added the Story of His Attempted Assassination by a Former Associate on the Supreme Bench of the State Stephen Johnson Field 1857
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- a jeofail: a jeofail in the shape of a misrecital.
NYT > Home Page By BEN SCHOTT 2010
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II.) the declaration was on the custom of the realm against a common carrier, and there was a motion in arrest of judgment, because there was a misrecital of the custom of the realm, and the defendant was not alleged to have been a carrier at the time of the receipt, and also because counts in trover, and in case on the custom, were joined.
The Common Law Oliver Wendell Holmes 1888
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