Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To designate wrongly; miscall; revile.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To call by a wrong name; to miscall.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To call by a wrong name; to miscall.

Etymologies

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mis- +‎ term

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  • Senators Richard Lugar and Joseph Biden will discuss the war in Iraq and the upcoming misterm elections.

    CNN Transcript Oct 28, 2006 2006

  • Exactly what Benedict XVI means by the misterm is unclear.

    RORATE CÆLI 2010

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