misformulate

To formulate incorrectly.

Verb

  1. To formulate incorrectly.
    • If children misformulate Dative Shift as a substitution of the PP dominated NP for a base generated NP position, as the hypothesis proposed here suggests they should, we can expect to hear strings like those in (18)...
    • Della Rocca's focus on the question of whether God could privilege one finite mode over the other leads him to misformulate Spinoza's critique of divine teleology. - 2013, Stewart Duncan, Antonia LoLordo, Debates in...
    • They misformulate their own existential insights in ways that either deprive their theories of political relevance or lead to tragically mistaken political commitments. - 2014, Kerry H. Whiteside, Merleau-Ponty and the...

Origin

From mis- + formulate.

Forms

misformulates misformulating misformulated