Meaning of miscontinue | Babel Free

Definitions

To continue wrongly.

Examples

“As to the seventh particular, viz. Where the process⟳ on an appeal, indictment, or information, shall be said to be discontinued, or miscontinued, or put⟳ without day.”

“If two parties are at issue⟳ in a praecipe quod reddat, and upon part they are at issue⟳ by a panel and upon part they are at issue⟳ upon a record⟳ – such as bastardy certified, or some other estoppel – and the process⟳ is continued against the jury but no day is given for brining in the record⟳, everything is discontinued and not merely miscontinued.”

“Poet do not mis-spell our thoughts or miscontinue what is held in our hearts.”

“Now, the application of each of these predicates to X will be defeasible if his subsequent performance is inadequate when measured by a standard implicit in the things he didn't explicitly think⟳ about — if he goes on to misuse E, miscontinue the series, cannot whistle the tune⟳, rejects Y's continuing '1002' after '1000' or shows he doesn't understand⟳ the rules of chess.”

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