misseal

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English

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Etymology

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From mis- +‎ seal.

Verb

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misseal (third-person singular simple present misseals, present participle missealing, simple past and past participle missealed)

  1. To seal improperly.
    • 1907, Current Law - Volume 8, page 1574:
      A deed of the premises to plaintiff was in every respect regular and sufficient to convey the legal title except that it was missealed and therefore conveyed only an equitable title.
    • 2004, Jeffrey J. Fox, Richard C. Gregory, The Dollarization Discipline, page 190:
      In blind applications, these old approaches took much longer and risked missealing some of the intended locations.
    • 2018, Charis M. Galanakis, Sustainable Meat Production and Processing, page 162:
      Due to different causes, as well as manpower limitations, limited amount of primals, or simply missealing, meat cuts could undergo subsequent vacuum packaging.

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