misentitle

Etymology

From mis- + entitle.

misentitle means To give an inappropriate title to; to mistitle. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 73 out of 100.

verb

To give an inappropriate title to; to mistitle.“In the forefront, of course, is Dr. Gordon, C.B. (whom he oddly misentitles “late Chief of the Medical Service in Madras" ), who is popularly believed, in the Madras Presidency, where he was Surgeon-General of the British Medical Service, to have denied the existence of specific enteric fever altogether.”
To entitle wrongly; to grant a right or rights which are not deserved or appropriate.“Here, as there, the surviving wife has herself misentitled her own cause, and in the present case if strictness of practice were observed she would appear as sole plaintiff in error impleaded with a living person from whom there has been no severance, and therefore no right of separate proceeding.”