Misline

Quick meaning: Misline is a verb meaning To incorrectly divide into lines.

Meaning

To incorrectly divide into lines.

Example Sentences

The author apparently mislined his verse here, as both texts place the words at the end of l. 60 but correctly end l. 61 with 'weepe'

Both compositors had some difficulty with lineation, but X mislined his copy only eight times whereas Y mislined his stint twenty-two times, often in more serious ways.

If the addition was in verse, he might set it up as prose or misline it, placing perhaps too many or too few feet in a line and thus throwing out the whole arrangement of the verse.

Word Forms

• mislines
• mislining
• mislined

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include misdivide, missplit, misplot, mispart, mislevel, mismerge.

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