mis-cipher, v. rare.
(mɪsˈsaɪfə(r))
[mis-1 1.]
trans. To express wrongly in cipher; † to affix a wrong numeral figure to.
| 1644 Marq. Ormonde Let. in Carte Coll. (1735) 290 The person's name, from whom it was sent..[was] certainly mis-cyphered. 1657 J. Sergeant Schism Dispach't 172 He proceeds, upon this mistake of his own and the Printer's mis-ciphering it, to call my sixth the seventh. 1893 S. R. Gardiner in Hamilton Papers (Camden) 22 Aversion [note: Sic.? mis-ciphered for ‘diversion’]. |