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▪ I. † misˈname, n. [mis-1 4.] An abusive name.
1481in Eng. Gilds (1870) 315 Callenge hym knaffe, or horson, or deffe, or any yoder mysname. ▪ II. misˈname, v. [mis-1 1.] 1. trans. To call by a wrong name; to name wrongly; = miscall 1. Often with compl.
1537tr. Latimer's Serm. bef. Convocation C vij, They be mis⁓named children of lyghte for as moche as they so hate lyghte. 1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1638) 244 Oftentimes mis-naming vnto them the places they passed by. a1641Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. (1642) 145 Though he misname the man, and nicknames him Darius Medus. 1711Steele Spect. No. 84 ⁋4 By the Force of a Tyrant Custom, which is mis-named a Point of Honour, the Duellist kills his Friend. 1774Beattie Minstr. ii. xxxvii, In that Elysian age (misnamed of gold). 1882Farrar Early Chr. I. 497 If James and Joses and Simon were habitually called brothers when they were only cousins, it can only be said that they were needlessly and systematically misnamed. †2. To call by an abusive name; = miscall 2.
c1500Coventry Corpus Chr. Plays 6/160 Josoff... Thogh thatt I dyd the mys-name, Marce, Mare! a1529Skelton Replyc. Wks. I. 211 Bycause ye her mysnamed, And wolde haue her defamed. c1550Bale K. Johan (Camden) 85 If thu with an hatefull harte Misnamest a kyng. 1632Sherwood, To misname, improperer. So misˈnamed ppl. a., wrongly named.
1839Hallam Hist. Lit. ii. v. §58 A tone of sadness reigns through this misnamed Paradise of Daintiness. 1904Contemp. Rev. Aug. 164 The now misnamed Pacific Ocean. |