"miscontinue" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "mis- + continue",
      "name": "prefix"
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  "etymology_text": "From mis- + continue.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "miscontinues",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "miscontinuing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "miscontinued",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "miscontinued",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "ref": "1795, William Hawkins, Thomas Leach, A Treatise of the Pleas of the Crown, page 169:",
          "text": "As to the seventh particular, viz. Where the process on an appeal, indictment, or information, shall be said to be discontinued, or miscontinued, or put without day.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1887, The Publications of the Selden Society, page 69:",
          "text": "If two parties are at issue in a praecipe quod reddat, and upon part they are at issue by a panel and upon part they are at issue upon a record – such as bastardy certified, or some other estoppel – and the process is continued against the jury but no day is given for brining in the record, everything is discontinued and not merely miscontinued.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1981, Marang - Volumes 3-6, page 13:",
          "text": "Poet do not mis-spell our thoughts or miscontinue what is held in our hearts.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Crispin Wright, Rails to Infinity: Essays on Themes from Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations, page 132:",
          "text": "Now, the application of each of these predicates to X will be defeasible if his subsequent performance is inadequate when measured by a standard implicit in the things he didn't explicitly think about — if he goes on to misuse E, miscontinue the series, cannot whistle the tune, rejects Y's continuing '1002' after '1000' or shows he doesn't understand the rules of chess.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To continue wrongly."
      ],
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        [
          "continue",
          "continue"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "miscontinue"
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      "expansion": "mis- + continue",
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "From mis- + continue.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "miscontinues",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "miscontinuing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "miscontinued",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "miscontinued",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "ref": "1795, William Hawkins, Thomas Leach, A Treatise of the Pleas of the Crown, page 169:",
          "text": "As to the seventh particular, viz. Where the process on an appeal, indictment, or information, shall be said to be discontinued, or miscontinued, or put without day.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1887, The Publications of the Selden Society, page 69:",
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          "type": "quote"
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        {
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          "text": "Poet do not mis-spell our thoughts or miscontinue what is held in our hearts.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Crispin Wright, Rails to Infinity: Essays on Themes from Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations, page 132:",
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      ],
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        "To continue wrongly."
      ],
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