misdate

Example Sentences

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She examined frescoes, illuminated manuscripts, hagiographies, and letters, uncovering materials that had been misdated or wrongly attributed.

From Science Daily

No one asked to confirm the date of his death - which the book misdated by a year.

From Washington Times

No one asked to confirm the date of his death — which the book misdated by a year.

From Seattle Times

Just last month, Fleming and Stern realized they had misdated a tape labeled “Electric Rock Symphony,” assuming it was a 1970s demo for “Metal Machine Music.”

From New York Times

The original letter — long thought lost — in which Galileo Galilei first set down his arguments against the church’s doctrine that the Sun orbits the Earth has been discovered in a misdated library catalogue in London.

From Nature