mistest
Etymology
From mis- + test.
mistest means an incorrectly applied test. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 100 out of 100.
noun
- An incorrectly applied test.“With this method of using a key and either using the two cords or one cord, it will prevent a mistest of that kind.”
- The act or process of mistesting.“All of the above systems are subject to a major problem: mistest.”
verb
- To incorrectly test.“This is because they test at a very small, 0 to 1/8 inch, gage length and can mistest a wool with a tender section or break.”
- To hostilely set challenges for.“Although it mought be somewhat dangerous, just hereabouts, to confess yourself a sodger of King George—let me tell you, that, being against you, I am not the person to mistest you on that head, by spreading the news abroad, or setting a few dozen of whigs upon your scent, which is a thing easily done.”