miscodify

To codify in an incorrect way.

Verb

  1. To codify in an incorrect way.
    • The nonsubstantive updates and corrections cure printing and engrossing errors; correct erroneous division and section crossreferences; substitute references to specific effective dates; recodify miscodified sections...
    • Claims examiners may miscodify services rendered. - 1988, Elizabeth Hogue, Preventing fraud and abuse: a guide for medicare and medicaid providers:
    • If the contemporary Confucians' approach can be called "mystify Chinese (and Confucian) philosophy" and the philologists and historians like Hu Shi's approach can be called "nullify Chinese (and Confucian) philosophy,"...

Origin

From mis- + codify.

Forms

miscodifies miscodifying miscodified