Sentence examples for misdated from inspiring English sources
The word "misdated" is a correct and usable word in written English
You can use it when something has been accidentally dated incorrectly, for example: "The documents were misdated and caused confusion for the court."
This is that the crater is known, but has been misdated.
It is possible, therefore, that Manicouagan has been misdated.
In February 1784 he began to keep a catalog of his own music, which suggests a new awareness of posterity and his place in it (in fact his entries are sometimes misdated).
Lewis turned to theism in 1930 (although Lewis misdated it to 1929 in Surprised by Joy) and to Christianity in 1931, partly with the help of his close friend and devout Roman Catholic J.R.R. Tolkien.
But Google has misdated hundreds of books and scattered many multivolume works so arbitrarily that they're hard to piece together even with the computer's help.
*Correction: An earlier version of this post misdated the Apollo 11 moon landing and erroneously suggested that Neil Armstrong's moon walk had been scheduled for the evening of July 20th.
Although Douthat's grasp of American religious history is sometimes tenuous — he misdates the Second Great Awakening, mistakes Puritans for Pilgrims and erroneously traces the disaffection of American Catholics to the Second Vatican Council rather than the papal encyclical "Humanae Vitae" — there is much to commend his argument.
You misdate your checks — to the wrong century.
And there are errors, like misdating the American directive for the occupation of Germany, and misstating the number of Americans killed in Vietnam.
(Revealingly, Smith misdates a famous battle from an earlier South African war: Rorke's Drift was in 1879, not "the 1890s").
As Longfellow once put it, "Nor let the Historian blame the Poet here, / If he perchance misdate the day or year".
