miscommand

Definitions

To command incompetently.

Examples

“If a Governour make⟳ a new Sacrament, I will not obey⟳, because: his command is null, and the thing simply evil. If he miscommand a Circumstance of Time, or Place⟳, or Gesture, I will consider⟳ the consequents.”

“If either the superiors miscommand, or the inferiors disobey, it is an affront to peace.”

“The truant skipped his drill, but had an eye no man could turn⟳ aside or miscommand for where the quarry of his spirit lay⟳.”

“Also at this time we would question⟳ the engineers about the failsafe mode that the satellite must go into in case an operator miscommands, or a failure of a redundant system in an attitude control⟳ system”

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