misinvoking

Verb

misinvoke (third-person singular simple present misinvokes, present participle misinvoking, simple past and past participle misinvoked)

1. To invoke (any sense) in error.
   • To rationalize their self-validating procedure, they even misinvoke Thomas Kuhn's notion of "normal science,” apparently unaware that a like misinvocation could even legitimate exorcism and other forms of sheer quackery.1993, Adolf Grünbaum, Validation in the Clinical Theory of Psychoanalysis, page 222