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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