What does misgather mean?
Misgather means To accumulate or assemble incorrectly..
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To accumulate or assemble incorrectly..
Some leaves have been lost or misgathered; the MS., however, affords no indication for deciding which of these suppositions is correct.
Several days were devoted to the examination of a cloud of witnesses, for and against; establishing character here, and destroying it there; — and more neighborhood and family secrets, scandal, odds, ends, and intervals of speech, and misgathered testimony were soon upon the wing, than it was possible for the atmosphere to sustain or the ear to register.
Theoretically the machine is foolproof and cannot misgather but in practice the hoppers are sometimes loaded with the wrong sections and this necessitates a percentage check on the product of the machine.
In the control copy, Henry E. Huntington Library, the Epilogue appears at the end of Act 5 on L1 (verso blank), this unsigned page was obviously gathered differently by a binder. A misgathered Princeton copy places the Epilogue before the Dedication.
Both Diana and Sydney had over-focused on some features to the exclusion of others, causing them to misgather and misuse the “data” they had about their lovers.
Thus we sometimes misgather those things (the sun for example) to be hot themselves, which produce heat in others; those to be cold, which cause sense of cold; those most, which leave an impression of moisture where noe wasor was unfelt before their operation: yet is the moon neither cold nor moist in itself, although the true cause of coldness or mostening in subjects aptly disposed to either quality.
Secondly, I have gathered from your testimony, though I mention it because I want to be correct if I misgather it, that NASA is an operating agency, not an intelligence agency.
The lower the discriminating conceptual power the more the facts are misgathered, i.e. the greater the misinformation – and vice versa .
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Misgather means To accumulate or assemble incorrectly..
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Some leaves have been lost or misgathered; the MS., however, affords no indication for deciding which of these suppositions is correct.
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