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Webster 1913 Edition
Miscall
Mis-call′
,Verb.
T.
1.
To call by a wrong name; to name improperly.
2.
To call by a bad name; to abuse.
[Obs.]
Fuller.
Webster 1828 Edition
Miscall
MISCALL'
,Verb.
T.
Definition 2024
miscall
miscall
English
Verb
miscall (third-person singular simple present miscalls, present participle miscalling, simple past and past participle miscalled)
- (now dialectal) To call (someone) bad names; to insult, abuse.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.xii:
- But one aboue the rest in speciall, / That had an hog beene late, hight Grille by name, / Repined greatly, and did him miscall, / That had from hoggish forme him brought to naturall.
- 1644, John Milton, Aeropagitica:
- He there exhorts us to hear with patience and humility those, however they be miscall'd, that desire to live purely, in such a use of Gods Ordinances, as the best guidance of their conscience gives them, and to tolerat them, though in some disconformity to our selves.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.xii:
- To call (something) by the wrong name.
- 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, p. 48:
- ‘In this country, peasants miscall it “Cowslip,” though of course the true Cowslip, Primula veris, is a different plant altogether.’
- 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, p. 48: