misextending

Verb

misextend (third-person singular simple present misextends, present participle misextending, simple past and past participle misextended)

1. To extend wrongly.
   • We have seen what an aptness there is to misapply and misextend St Paul's principles of unity, and to seek support in them for that which in fact they rather exclude.1846, Julius Charles Hare, The Mission of the Comforter, and Other Sermons, page 1018