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misˈterm, v.
[mis-1 1.]
trans. To term incorrectly; to apply a wrong term or name to.
1579E. K. Gloss. Spenser's Sheph. Cal. Apr. 144 Flowre delice, that which they vse to misterme, Flowre de luce. 1592Shakes. Rom. & Jul. iii. iii. 21. 1599 Thynne Animadv. (1875) 28 The woorke, before this last editione of Chaucer termed ‘the Dreame of Chaucer’, is mystermed. 1623Middleton & Rowley Sp. Gipsy v. i, I am none of ought Your rage misterms me. 1822Liberal I. 342 The factitious modes of society, which form what is mis-termed ‘its well being’. 1891L. Merrick Violet Moses III. xxiii. 189 There are unions mistermed ‘guilty’.
Hence misˈtermed ppl. a., misˈterming vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1589Nashe Anat. Absurd. C j b, [His] bald affected eloquence,..better beseeming..a misterming Clowne in a Comedy, then a chosen man in the Ministerie. 1593Norden Spec. Brit., M'sex i. 8 Holding the smallest errour (yea the misterming of the place) verie criminous. 1597[see mistaken ppl. a. 1]. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Misnomer,..a misterming or miscalling. |