misapply
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -aɪ
Verb
misapply (third-person singular simple present misapplies, present participle misapplying, simple past and past participle misapplied)
- To apply incorrectly; to misuse.
- 1913, Sir Frederick Pollock, Robert Campbell, Oliver Augustus Saunders, The Revised Reports
- It may be that the jury in this case have misapplied the rule laid down by this Court, but not in favour of the defendants. I cannot help thinking they might well have held the watercourse to be the true boundary line between the two properties.
- 1913, Sir Frederick Pollock, Robert Campbell, Oliver Augustus Saunders, The Revised Reports
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