misformulate

English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ formulate.

Verb

misformulate (third-person singular simple present misformulates, present participle misformulating, simple past and past participle misformulated)

1. To formulate incorrectly.
   • 1979, Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Western Conference on Linguistics, page 66:

     If children misformulate Dative Shift as a substitution of the PP dominated NP for a base generated NP position, as the hypothesis proposed here suggests they should, we can expect to hear strings like those in (18) produced by children and can predict that children will find them grammatical for a time.

   • 2013, Stewart Duncan, Antonia LoLordo, Debates in Modern Philosophy:

     Della Rocca's focus on the question of whether God could privilege one finite mode over the other leads him to misformulate Spinoza's critique of divine teleology.

   • 2014, Kerry H. Whiteside, Merleau-Ponty and the Foundation of Existential Politics, page 37:

     They misformulate their own existential insights in ways that either deprive their theories of political relevance or lead to tragically mistaken political commitments.