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misinvoke en · VERB

Etymology

From mis- + invoke.

Meanings

1. To invoke (any sense) in error.
   • And if the very notion of physical time becomes problematic in fundamental physics, as urged by John Wheeler, even the temptation to misinvoke divine creation ex nihilo is altogether undercut. 2013, John Leslie, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, The Mystery of Existence: Why Is There Anything At All?, page 68:
   • However, to reduce the work of Smith and Ricardo to one argument each is to overlook the nuances in their arguments and to misinvoke them as the forefathers of a purely economic liberalism. 2008, John Ravenhill, Global Political Economy, page 41:
   • 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:
   • Respondents brief at pp 19-22 erroneously contends that the Shapiro exclusive is supported by California law. They misinvoke that law, and not only as noted in Blank and Centano. 2016, California. Court of Appeal (4th Appellate District)., page 22:

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