Misentitle

Quick meaning: Misentitle is a verb meaning To give an inappropriate title to; to mistitle.

Meaning

To give an inappropriate title to; to mistitle.

More Meanings

1. To entitle wrongly; to grant a right or rights which are not deserved or appropriate.

Example Sentences

Where it appears that the plaintiff has misentitled his or her action for the sole purpose […]

The Brief of Appellant filed herein will hereinafter be called "App. Bf ."; and the Complaint herein, which Verdone misentitles "Declaration, " will be called "Complaint."

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.

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 altogether.

Word Forms

• misentitles
• misentitling
• misentitled

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include mistitle, misname, misnomer, misintroduce, mislabel, misdefine.

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