misrestore
verbEtymology From mis- + restore.
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To restore improperly; to err in the restoration of.
- Using vase paintings, it has been possible to correct the arm positions that the Naples Museum had misrestored.2003, Louis Crompton, Homosexuality and Civilization, page 29:
- 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.2004, Garth Fowden, Quṣayr ʻAmra: Art and the Umayyad Elite in Late Antique Syria, page 67:
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- Note that Labat, RSO32.117, 121 misrestores and consequently mistranslates this passage.2005, Diagnoses in Assyrian and Babylonian Medicine, page 711: