misextend

present singular third person misextends · participle present misextending · participle past misextended · past misextended

1. To extend wrongly.

   We have seen what an aptness there is to misapply and misextend St Paul's principles of unity, and to seek support in them for that which in fact they rather exclude.

   1846, Julius Charles Hare, The Mission of the Comforter, and Other Sermons, page 1018

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   […] and misextended this term Quichua; it was really and originally the name of a tribe which spoke a dialect of the language of the Incas and wich lived between the Pachachaca and Pampa Rivers in what is at present the provinces of Andahuailas and Abancay departamento of Apurimac in central Perú.

   1940, Luis Eduardo Valcárcel, Revista del Museo Nacional - Volumes 9-10, page 203

   I am trying to make a point, on behalf of the Opposition in relation to the use of the external affairs power, which was misconstrued and misextended earlier by the Attorney-General.

   1983, Australia. Parliament. House of Representatives, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard).: House of Representatives, page 576

   One might expect to find misextensions of various kinds based on ill-matched lexical areas across the child's two languages, parallel to the misextended morphological categories or syntactic structures that have already been noted.

   2012, Charles J. Brainerd, Michael Pressley, Verbal Processes in Children, page 43