misentitling

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
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