单词 | miscalled |
释义 | miscalledadj. Wrongly or inappropriately called or named. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > naming > [adjective] > named or called > wrongly misnamed1548 mistermed1582 miscalled1651 misnomered1741 misnomed1804 mistitled1829 1651 J. Jackson Sober Word 53 Not to go about to build, and set up wayes, by their own mistaken, miscalled, and misunderstood gifts. 1747 J. Wesley Jrnl. 20 Apr. (1912) III. 290 Towards the close of his discourse a mob came from York, hired and headed by some (miscalled) gentlemen. 1829 S. Cooper Good's Study Med. (ed. 3) IV. 235 In those cases of..miscalled cataracts. 1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby vi. 51 Let miscalled philosophers tell us what they will. 1904 Q. Rev. Oct. 467 The hyraces—the miscalled coneys of Scripture. 1990 L. Sykes Proportional Representation (BNC) 61 As arbitrary and controversial as those miscalled ‘natural communities’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1651 |
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