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Miscall   Listen
verb
Miscall  v. t.  
1.
To call by a wrong name; to name improperly.
2.
To call by a bad name; to abuse. (Obs.)





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"Miscall" Quotes from Famous Books



... beasts they comely men became: Yet being men they did unmanly looke, And stared ghastly, some for inward shame, And some for wrath to see their captive dame: But one above the rest in speciall, That had an hog been late, hight Grylle by name, Repyned greatly, and did him miscall, That had from hoggish forme ...
— Gryll Grange • Thomas Love Peacock
... his frank laugh, "peace, I beg, friend! Miscall not a gentleman thus. Smuggler—pirate? I cut a pretty figure evidently in your worship's eyes. Lucky for me you never would be sworn as a magistrate, or where should I be ... and you too, between duty and friendship?—But to proceed: ...
— The Light of Scarthey • Egerton Castle
... as my whole grey life is gilt withal. On the back of it I can endure. If these good days of LONGMAN and the CENTURY only last, it will be a very green world, this that we dwell in and that philosophers miscall. I have no taste for that philosophy; give me large sums paid on the receipt of the MS. and copyright reserved, and what do I care about the non-beent? Only I know it can't last. The devil always ...
— The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson - Volume 1 • Robert Louis Stevenson


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