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English
Etymology
From mis- + restore.
Verb
misrestore (third-person singular simple present misrestores, present participle misrestoring, simple past and past participle misrestored)
- To restore improperly; to err in the restoration of.
2003, Louis Crompton, Homosexuality and Civilization, page 29:Using vase paintings, it has been possible to correct the arm positions that the Naples Museum had misrestored.
2004, Garth Fowden, Quṣayr ʻAmra: Art and the Umayyad Elite in Late Antique Syria, page 67:The musician plays the long-necked lute, and the fact that its neck extends up towward the right-hand dancer's face, while the middle part of the instrument has been virtually obliterated by water streaming in through the vault, caused the Spanish team to identify the woman as a flautist—and perhaps to misrestore her right hand.
2005, Diagnoses in Assyrian and Babylonian Medicine, page 711:Note that Labat, RSO32.117, 121 misrestores and consequently mistranslates this passage.