miscancel

From mis- +‎ cancel.

miscancel (third-person singular simple present miscancels, present participle miscancelling or (US) miscanceling, simple past and past participle miscancelled or (US) miscanceled)

1. To cancel by mistake.
   • 1911, Ainslee's - Volume 26, page 137:

     No one will ever discover it, and, if they do, the lady has only to say that she stupidly miscanceled.

   • 2012, Klaus Wandelt, Surface and Interface Science, Volumes 1 and 2:

     The optical path external to the UHV chamber has to be purged with dry air, or held at rough vacuum, so that water vapor and CO₂ levels in the optical path are held at a constant level to avoid miscanceled absorptions obscuring vital parts of the IR spectrum.

2. To make a mistake in the process of cancelling.
   • 1973, Acta Universitatis Carolinae: Medica - Volume 19, page 287:

     The prescriptions are sometimes irresponsibly written by general practitioners. We usually find miscancelled prescriptions arranged for the purpose of abuse.

   • 1983, The Book Collector - Volume 32, page 52:

     So many copies have come down to us in which the title-page of the preliminaries is miscancelled, indeed , that it is surprising that we know of only one in which the earlier title-page is bound as printed.

   • 2007, American Philatelist and Year Book of the American Philatelic Association, Volume 121, page 120:

     Over a period of about two months, which encompassed more than 20,000 pieces of incoming mail to one company, I was able to determine that more than seven percent of automated letter mail either was not being canceled or was being miscanceled enough to miss the stamps.