The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mismeasure
Mismeasure \Mis*meas"ure\ (?; 135), v. t. To measure or estimate incorrectly.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
mismeasure
vb. (context transitive intransitive English) To measure incorrectly or inaccurately.
Usage examples of "mismeasure".
Gould, S J The Mismeasure of Man, Norton, 1981: Harrington, A Medicine, Mind and the Double Brain, Princeton University Press, 1987.
He wandered off then, shouting at one of the thanes who had mismeasured the placement of a hazel-rod.
He did not know what we betokened, but he had not mismeasured our value.
There is always, always some overlooked or mismeasured factor, or a stew of factors.
Sometimes we came to a jog in the hallway, as if its builders had started from both ends agreeing to meet in the middle, but mismeasured by a handspan or two.