MISTIME

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Mistime

verb

Third-person singular simple present: mistimes

Indicative past, past participle mistimed

Present participle: mistiming.

Etymology: it is a compound of mis- (prefix equivalent to amiss, badly, wrongly) and the verb time.

Transitively:

Not to time properly; to time wrongly:

a. To indicate wrongly the time of (something done); to fail to ascertain the correct duration of (an action); to miss of reckoning (a month, a day, a year, etc.); to miscalculate the time of.

Approximate synonyms: to parachronize, anachronize

Equivalent periphrases in other idioms: se tromper dans le compte du temps de (quelque chose), dater mal, in French; datar mal, in Spanish; datare male, in Italian.

Unfortunately I had mistimed the length of the interval, and Tony and I were still drinking pints of beer in the King George when the curtain rose. Richard Gordon (Doctor in Love)

Unfortunately the value obtained from the Rodrigues recording was discrepant when compared to the relatively nearby Cape, and Short thought that Mason and Dixon, […] has mistimed the event by precisely one minute. Duncan Steel (Eclipse)

A few details from a traumatic event of childhood may be factually wrong because the child initially misperceived or mistimed the sequence of what happened. Margaret E. Hertzig (Annual Progress in Child Psychiatry…)

Although she and her team have correctly predicted the timing of the mass spawn for years, there’s always the chance that the corals won’t do what everyone is expecting. Knowlton might have mistimed the event, which would be an expensive mistake. Alanna Mitchell (Seasick)

Rowley's chronicle drama abounds in anachronisms. The probable facts […] are only mistimed. John Doran (The History of Court Fools)

A colored brother of Massachusetts birth, as black as a man can well be, and of a merely anthropoidal profile, was driving me along shore in search of a sea-side hotel when we came upon a weak-minded young chicken in the road. The natural expectation is that any chicken in these circumstances will wait for your vehicle, and then fly up before it with a loud screech; but this chicken may have been overcome by the heat (it was a land breeze and it drew like the breath of a furnace over the hay-cocks and the clover), or it may have mistimed the wheel. William Dean Howells (Short Stories and Essays)

***Also used absolutely:

Ocean navigations were still controlled by calculations based on the position of the sun, moon and stars. This inaccurate method invariably produced navigation errors because every minute lost by mistiming could put a ship as much as 15 kilometres off course. Roy Navrala (The Clock)

b. To do or perform untimely or inopportunely; to say or do (something) at an unsuitable time.

An unintended pregnancy is a pregnancy that is either mistimed (the woman did not want to be pregnant until later) or unwanted (the woman did not want to be pregnant at any time) at the time of conception. James F. McKenzie – R. R. Pinger (An Introduction to Community Health)

English vocables derived from, or compounded with, time: mistimed, mistiming, overtime (noun, verb, adv.), over-timer, aforetime, bedtime, beforetime, by-time, flexitime, foretime, foretimed, full-timer, half-timer, heretoforetime, meal-time, meantime, midtime, night-time, noon-time, no-time, off-time, old-timey, old-time, old-timer, old-timiness, pastime (noun, verb), playtime, prime-time, ragtime, ragtimer, ragtimey, ragtimy, ragtiming, seed-time, sometimes, sometime, timeous, time (noun, verb), time-ball, time-bargain, timed, timeful, timefully, time-honoured, timekeeper, timekeepership, time-keeping, timeless, timelessly, timelessness, time-like, time-limit, timeliness, timely (adj., adv.), timeously, timepiece, timer, time-server, time-service, time-serving (noun, adj.), time-servingness, time-sharing, time-share (noun, verb), time-shared, time-sharer, time-space (noun, adj.), time-table (noun, verb), time-tabled, time-tabling, timeward, timing, timist, aftertime, anytime, double-time (noun, verb), downtime, life-time, longtimer, microtime, overtime (noun, adv., verb), over-timer, part-time, part-timer, shortime, short-timer, small-timer, springtime, summertime, suppertime, wintertime.