misrelegate

present singular third person misrelegates · participle present misrelegating · participle past misrelegated · past misrelegated

1. To relegate inappropriately.

   "Job-consciousness," that suggestive concept so regularly re-examined and so frequently misrelegated to the mythology of the past, is, in my estimation, still a useful, dynamic insight.

   1965, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, volume 19, page 625

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   However, this anticipates what needs to be shown, and ignores what I have just claimed: the widespread failure to recognize that the dialogue is indeed about virtue, being instead misrelegated to the specialists of academic epistemology, with only its famous "paradox" (perhaps along with Socrates' seemingly bizarre resolution) being extracted for use in elementary courses and textbooks introducing "The Basic Problems of Philosophy."

   2001, Zdravko Planinc, Politics, Philosophy, Writing: Plato's Art of Caring for Souls, page 63

   He is “misrelegated to a state mental hospital” where he is studied, categorized, made subject to discipline “at the hands of well-meaning representatives of the social order” (Bell 9).

   2013, Gabe Rikard, Authority and the Mountaineer in Cormac McCarthy's Appalachia, page 72