misinvoke

misinvoke

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ invoke

Verb

misinvoke (third-person singular simple present misinvokes, present participle misinvoking, simple past and past participle misinvoked)

1. To invoke (any sense) in error.
   • 1993, Adolf Grünbaum, Validation in the Clinical Theory of Psychoanalysis, page 222:

     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.

   • 2008, John Ravenhill, Global Political Economy, page 41:

     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.

   • 2013, John Leslie, ‎Robert Lawrence Kuhn, The Mystery of Existence: Why Is There Anything At All?, page 68:

     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.

   • 2016, California. Court of Appeal (4th Appellate District)., page 22:

     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.