misdate

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A. Text and title from B, which corrects four lines, and misdates '81.

From Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Now First Published by Bridges, Robert Seymour

They abound in small errors, in misdates, mistakes; small fictions even, and impossible pretensions:—foolish mortal, to write down his bit of knowledge in that form!

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 10 by Carlyle, Thomas

Moreover, the letter of the Earl of Berkeley to Swift, which Scott misdates 1706-1707, but which should be 1708, makes special reference to this very tract, showing that it was certainly published in 1708.

From The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 03 Swift's Writings on Religion and the Church — Volume 1 by Swift, Jonathan