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misˈcasting, vbl. n.
[mis-1 3.]
1. Miscalculation; in mod. use, technically, wrong addition (of accounts).
1542–3Act 34 & 35 Hen. VIII, c. 21 For misrecytall or nonrecytall of Leases..or for lacke of the certentie myscasting rating or setting foorthe of the yerelie values..of the Premisses. 1621Molle Camerar. Liv. Libr. iii. i. 149 When there is a miscasting in the beginning of an account. 1692Washington tr. Milton's Def. People Eng. M.'s Wks. 1738 I. 516 Ballance your Accounts, and you will find that by miscasting, you have lost your Principal. 1797Tomlins Jacob's Law Dict., Miscasting or Miscomputing. 1887Daily News 4 Mar. 7/3 A miscasting of the books in one instance was over 3,000l.
2. Bad casting (of metal)
1901N. & Q. Ser. ix. VIII. 430/2 The difficulty arises from the bell-founder's miscasting.
3. Theatr. The allotting to an actor of a part which does not suit him.
1926Spectator 25 Sept. 470/2 In a long list of characters there is not one case of miscasting. 1927Observer 26 Sept. 13/4 Those instances of what I thought was miscasting have made me long to try my hand at casting a play. 1946Weekly Rev. 20 June 156/1 The extraordinary mis-casting of the Elder who was made up to look like an emaciated crook suffering from T.B. 1971Daily Tel. 24 Nov. 10/4 Act Four [of ‘Swan Lake’] suffered..from the miscasting of Miss Mason. |