misinvoke

verb

Etymology

From mis- + invoke.

  1. derived from invocō
  2. derived from envoquer
  3. inherited from *invoken
  4. prefixed as misinvoke — “mis + invoke

Definitions

  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.
    • 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.
    • 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.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA