In law, the mistaking of the true name of a person; a misnaming. [Misnosmer, as written by Blackstone, must be a corrupt orthography. In no dialect has name, Latin nomen, been written with s, unless by mistake.
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The misnaming of a person in a legal instrument, as in a complaint or indictment; any misnaming of a person or thing; a wrong or inapplicable name or title.
To misname.
Misnomer Roget’s Thesaurus §565
N. misnomer, lucus a non lucendo, mrs. # malaprop, what d'ye call 'em, hoosier, nickname, sobriquet, by-name, assumed name, assumed title, alias, nom de course, nom de theatre, nom de guerre, nom de plume, pseudonym, pseudonymy
V. misname, miscall, misterm, nickname, assume a name
Adj. misnamed, pseudonymous, soi-disant, self called, self styled, self christened, so-called, nameless, anonymous, without a having no name, innominate, unnamed, unacknowledged
Adv. in no sense
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