| 释义 |
misˈtiming, vbl. n.
[mis-1 3.]
The action of the verb mistime.
1. a. Doing a thing at a wrong time. b. Miscalculation of the time of an event, etc.
1581Mulcaster Positions xvi. (1887) 73 The rule of health condemnes not daunsing, but the mistyming of it. 1649Jer. Taylor Gt. Exemp. iii. Disc. xiv. 11 He endures affronts, mistimings, tedious waytings. 1664H. More Myst. Iniq. 448 The same falling out here that has in his other mistimings of Prophecy. 1693J. Edwards Author. O. & N. Test. 152 There was no great mis-timing of the story. 1765T. Ellwood Autobiog. (ed. 3) 301 If..there was any mis⁓timing in the Case it must lie on the Part of those Plotters for timing the breaking forth of their Plot. 1873Maxwell Electr. & Magn. II. §751 The error arising from a mistiming of the current.
2. dial. Disturbance of regular habits.
1844W. Cross Disruption xxxii. (E.D.D.), This illness maun have maid him less fit to thole ony mistiming either of meat or sleep. |