misline

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ line

Verb

misline (third-person singular simple present mislines, present participle mislining, simple past and past participle mislined)

1. To incorrectly divide into lines.
   • 1931, Lawrence Counselman Wroth, The Johns Hopkins Alumni Magazine, page 338:

     If the addition was in verse, he might set it up as prose or misline it, placing perhaps too many or too few feet in a line and thus throwing out the whole arrangement of the verse.

   • 1952, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, Cyril Tourneur, The Honest Mans Fortune, page 159:

     The author apparently mislined his verse here, as both texts place the words at the end of l. 60 but correctly end l. 61 with 'weepe'

   • 1981, Christopher Marlowe, Fredson Bowers, The Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe, page 6:

     Both compositors had some difficulty with lineation, but X mislined his copy only eight times whereas Y mislined his stint twenty-two times, often in more serious ways.