Mislain

Part of speech: adjective, verb

Definitions

1. An uncommon variant of a term indicating something that has been given or sent mistakenly or incorrectly ; a miscommunication or error in message transmission ; a fault in the placement or delivery of information
2. A rare usage describing an act of dispatching or designating in error ; an instance of misaddressed correspondence or misunderstood instruction ; a mistake in assigning or labeling
3. A scarcely used form referring to an incorrect sending or allocation ; an erroneous message or misdirected information ; a slip in conveying or situating details wrongly

Etymology: "Mislain" is the past participle of "mislie," a Middle English verb formed from "mis-," meaning wrongly or amiss, and "lie," in the sense of being placed or lying somewhere. To mislie was, in effect, to be put in the wrong place, so a thing that was mislain was one that had been set down where it did not belong. That sense of misplacement carries straight into the modern meanings. A letter mislain in a sorting office never reaches its addressee, and a message mislain in transmission has been delivered by error. The word is a compound built from ordinary English parts rather than a borrowing, so its history lies in the everyday meanings of its two halves.

Synonyms: mislaid, lost, misplaced, forgotten, overlooked

Antonyms: found, located, retrieved, discovered, remembered