misentitle

Verb

misentitle (third-person singular simple present misentitles, present participle misentitling, simple past and past participle misentitled)

1. To give an inappropriate title to; to mistitle.
   • In the forefront, of course, is Dr. Gordon, C.B. (whom he oddly misentitles “late Chief of the Medical Service in Madras" ), who is popularly believed, in the Madras Presidency, where he was Surgeon-General of the British Medical Service, to have denied the existence of specific enteric fever...1882 December, “Reviews and Bibliographical Notices: On the Climate and Fevers of India”, in The Dublin Journal of Medical Science, volume 74, number 132, page 466
   • The Brief of Appellant filed herein will hereinafter be called "App. Bf ."; and the Complaint herein, which Verdone misentitles "Declaration, " will be called "Complaint."1994, Verdone V. State of Wisconsin, page 2
2. To entitle wrongly; to grant a right or rights which are not deserved or appropriate.
   • Here, as there, the surviving wife has herself misentitled her own cause, and in the present case if strictness of practice were observed she would appear as sole plaintiff in error impleaded with a living person from whom there has been no severance, and therefore no right of separate proceeding.1882, “Campau v. Brown”, in Michigan Reports: Reports of Cases Heard and Decided in the Supreme Court of Michigan, volume 48, page 147
   • It was not at the option of the plaintiffs to cross-examine or not; if that were the practice, the consequence would be that a party might misentitle the interrogatories, and then, when he found that matter came out upon the examination of some of the witnesses, that made against him, he might...1904, The English Reports - Volume 37, page 782