MISCALL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does miscall mean? 

• MISCALL (verb)
  The verb MISCALL has 1 sense:

1. assign in incorrect name to

  Familiarity information: MISCALL used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MISCALL (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they miscall    ... he / she / it miscalls   
Past simple: miscalled   
Past participle: miscalled   
-ing form: miscalling   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Assign in incorrect name to

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

miscall; misname

Context example:

These misnamed philanthropists

Hypernyms (to "miscall" is one way to...):

call (ascribe a quality to or give a name of a common noun that reflects a quality)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

 Context examples 

I had rather that hand withered and tongue was palsied ere I had struck or miscalled you.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mrs. Chillip does go so far as to say, pursued the meekest of little men, much encouraged, that what such people miscall their religion, is a vent for their bad humours and arrogance.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Good, quiet, uncomplaining mother Nature, long slighted and miscalled, still bides her time and draws to her bosom the most errant of her children.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They were presided over nominally by my mother, but really by Mr. Murdstone and his sister, who were always present, and found them a favourable occasion for giving my mother lessons in that miscalled firmness, which was the bane of both our lives.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)