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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of miscall.

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Examples

  • It was the ignorance of mans reason that begat this very name, and by a careless term miscalled the

    Religio Medici 1605-1682 1923

  • It was the ignorance of mans reason that begat this very name, and by a careless term miscalled the Providence of GOD; for there is no liberty for causes to operate in a loose and stragling way; nor any effect whatsoever, but hath its warrant from some universal or superiour Cause.

    The First Part: Paras 1-35 1909

  • It was the ignorance of man's reason that begat this very name, and by a careless term miscalled the providence of God: for there is no liberty for causes to operate in a loose and straggling way; nor any effect whatsoever but hath its warrant from some universal or superior cause.

    Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend 1643

  • It was the ignorance of man’s reason that begat this very name, and by a careless term miscalled the providence of God: for there is no liberty for causes to operate in a loose and straggling way; nor any effect whatsoever but hath its warrant from some universal or superior cause.

    Religio Medici 2007

  • They are much better than most of our sacred poetry, as it is strangely miscalled, which is frequently neither poetry nor common sense: --

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 Various

  • She had the kind of clear, clean progressive politics that came directly from the heart and the head: she didn't possess an ounce of guile or expediency, the latter sometimes miscalled pragmatism by those who favour power over principle.

    Archive 2009-08-01 2009

  • Alas, Matt Ryan miscalled it, as he did before the game, and could only watch as the New York football Giants nailed a tie-bustin 'field goal for a 34-31 victory.

    Falcons try to flip the switch at home after falling to .500 - sports 2009

  • He was not the originator or major advocate of inheritance of acquired characters miscalled “Lamarckian inheritance”.

    The Panda's Thumb: Guest Contributor Archives 2010

  • "Take heed not to go too far in his dispraise," said Gwion, but in weariness and grief rather than indignation, "for I may not hear him miscalled."

    His Disposition 2010

  • Israel has the better excuse, driven half mad by threats and wars and the suicide bombings of the Second Intifada; but a series of queasy concessions to the fanatical colonists who are sometimes miscalled "settlers" have deformed its politics from within.

    David Bromwich: Rules of Engagement from Baghdad to Gaza 2009

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