misintroduce

Verb

misintroduce (third-person singular simple present misintroduces, present participle misintroducing, simple past and past participle misintroduced)

1. To name or describe (someone or something) incorrectly when making an introduction; to present (someone or something) by the wrong name or description.
   • The first thing I did was to misintroduce an engineer to somebody else. I never did get all the engineers straightened out — they weren't in L & S.1987, Lincoln Constance, Versatile Berkeley Botanist, page 211
   • Archaeology has for years been misintroduced as a treasure-hunting, collecting, object-oriented entertainment. As a result, the public has become so object oriented and its misconceptions about the real business of archaeology are now so twisted by this object orientation, that deprogramming and...1994, Abstracts in Anthropology - Volume 67, Issue 3, page 190
2. To insert (something) incorrectly to a system or environment; to insert (something) that does not belong there or to insert it in the wrong way.
   • Bedrnik ( 1970a ) obtained greater development of E . tenella merozoites after using inocula containing “misintroduced" cells from the cecum of chickens.1973, Datus M. Hammond, Peter L. Long, The Coccidia: Eimeria, Isospora, Toxoplasma, and Related Genera, page 222
   • Thus, if they are misintroduced during specimen preparation, misinterpretation will result.1974, Kazuhiro Otsuka, Takemi Nakamura, Ken’ichi Shimizu, “Electron Microscopy Study of Stress-induced Acicular β1′ Martensite in Cu–Al–Ni Alloy”, in Transaction of the Japan Institue of Metals...