English

Verb

misreckoning

1. present participle of misreckon

Noun

misreckoning ‎(plural misreckonings)

1. A false reckoning; a miscalculation. [from 16th c.]
   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, III.11:

     And if by such a meane we might provide for times to come, appoynting that after the revolution of such or such a number of yeares, that extraordinary day might for ever be eclipsed; so that our misreckoning should not henceforward exceede foure and twenty houres.