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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
miscall .
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Examples
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It was the ignorance of mans reason that begat this very name, and by a careless term miscalled the
Religio Medici 1605-1682 1923
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It was the ignorance of mans reason that begat this very name, and by a careless term miscalled the Providence of GOD; for there is no liberty for causes to operate in a loose and stragling way; nor any effect whatsoever, but hath its warrant from some universal or superiour Cause.
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It was the ignorance of man's reason that begat this very name, and by a careless term miscalled the providence of God: for there is no liberty for causes to operate in a loose and straggling way; nor any effect whatsoever but hath its warrant from some universal or superior cause.
Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend 1643
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It was the ignorance of man’s reason that begat this very name, and by a careless term miscalled the providence of God: for there is no liberty for causes to operate in a loose and straggling way; nor any effect whatsoever but hath its warrant from some universal or superior cause.
Religio Medici 2007
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They are much better than most of our sacred poetry, as it is strangely miscalled, which is frequently neither poetry nor common sense: --
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 Various
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She had the kind of clear, clean progressive politics that came directly from the heart and the head: she didn't possess an ounce of guile or expediency, the latter sometimes miscalled pragmatism by those who favour power over principle.
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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Alas, Matt Ryan miscalled it, as he did before the game, and could only watch as the New York football Giants nailed a tie-bustin 'field goal for a 34-31 victory.
Falcons try to flip the switch at home after falling to .500 - sports 2009
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He was not the originator or major advocate of inheritance of acquired characters miscalled “Lamarckian inheritance”.
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"Take heed not to go too far in his dispraise," said Gwion, but in weariness and grief rather than indignation, "for I may not hear him miscalled."
His Disposition 2010
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Israel has the better excuse, driven half mad by threats and wars and the suicide bombings of the Second Intifada; but a series of queasy concessions to the fanatical colonists who are sometimes miscalled "settlers" have deformed its politics from within.
David Bromwich: Rules of Engagement from Baghdad to Gaza 2009
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