"miscertify" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "mis",
        "3": "certify"
      },
      "expansion": "mis- + certify",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From mis- + certify.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "miscertifies",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "miscertifying",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "miscertified",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "miscertified",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "miscertify (third-person singular simple present miscertifies, present participle miscertifying, simple past and past participle miscertified)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with mis-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1739, John Cay, An Abridgment of the Publick Statutes in Force and Use:",
          "text": "No officer belonging to the King's bench, common pleas or exchequer, nor any clerk of assise, clerk of the peace, town-clerk, or any officer under them, nor any other, shall conceal any indictment, fine, post-fine, issue, amercement, forfeited recognizance or other forfeiture, unless by order of court; nor shall they miscertify any of the same ; on pain to forfeit the treble value of what they conceal or miscertify; one moiety to the King, the other to the prosecutor; and also on pain to lose his office, and be incapable of any office where any part of the King's revenue is managed or paid.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1980, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Stripper Oil Miscertification, page 35:",
          "text": "When did the enforcement staff first recognize the trend to miscertify? The day it became an economic advantage to miscertify.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Proceedings of the Java Virtual Machine Research and Technology Symposium, page 55:",
          "text": "Thus, there may be no protection against the possibility that signing authorities miscertify.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To certify something that does not meet the criteria for certification."
      ],
      "id": "en-miscertify-en-verb-35Y7b8u0",
      "links": [
        [
          "certify",
          "certify"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "miscertify"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "mis",
        "3": "certify"
      },
      "expansion": "mis- + certify",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From mis- + certify.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "miscertifies",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "miscertifying",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "miscertified",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "miscertified",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "miscertify (third-person singular simple present miscertifies, present participle miscertifying, simple past and past participle miscertified)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms prefixed with mis-",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1739, John Cay, An Abridgment of the Publick Statutes in Force and Use:",
          "text": "No officer belonging to the King's bench, common pleas or exchequer, nor any clerk of assise, clerk of the peace, town-clerk, or any officer under them, nor any other, shall conceal any indictment, fine, post-fine, issue, amercement, forfeited recognizance or other forfeiture, unless by order of court; nor shall they miscertify any of the same ; on pain to forfeit the treble value of what they conceal or miscertify; one moiety to the King, the other to the prosecutor; and also on pain to lose his office, and be incapable of any office where any part of the King's revenue is managed or paid.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1980, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Stripper Oil Miscertification, page 35:",
          "text": "When did the enforcement staff first recognize the trend to miscertify? The day it became an economic advantage to miscertify.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Proceedings of the Java Virtual Machine Research and Technology Symposium, page 55:",
          "text": "Thus, there may be no protection against the possibility that signing authorities miscertify.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To certify something that does not meet the criteria for certification."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "certify",
          "certify"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "miscertify"
}