misinvoke
To invoke (any sense) in error.
Verb
- 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...
- 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,...
- 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,...
Origin
From mis- + invoke.