Definition of Misreference

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Misreference

misrecognize
misrecognized
misrecognizes
misrecognizing
misrecollect
misrecollected
misrecollecting
misrecollection
misrecollections
misrecollects
misrecord
misrecorded
misrecording
misrecords
misrefer
misreference (current term)
misreferences
misreferred
misreferring
misrefers
misregard
misregister
misregistered
misregistering
misregisters
misregistration
misregulate
misregulated
misregulates
misregulating

Literary usage of Misreference

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Text-book of physiology: For Medical Students and Physicians by William Henry Howell (1915)
"... from the spinal segment from which the organ in question »ives its sensory fibers, the misreference being due to a diffusion the nerve centers. ..."

2. Plain Principles of Prose Composition by William Minto (1893)
"A comic misreference is—possible. The sentence is not a model. ... But in the following, though an absurd misreference is possible by a critic on the ..."

3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1913)
"The application of this theory to many more clinically observed facts, for instance, the misreference of pain arising in the abdominal viscera to various ..."

4. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1906)
"Counsel for plaintiff in error admit ;hat this was a misreference, but contend that it was corrected by the petition for re- ..."

5. Text-book of Anatomy and Physiology for Nurses by Diana Clifford Kimber, Carolyn Elizabeth Gray (1918)
"The explanation of this misreference is that the pain is referred to, or appears to come from, the skin region that is supplied with sensory fibres from the ..."

6. Federal Statutes Annotated: Containing All the Laws of the United States, of by United States, Edward Thompson Company (1918)
"Corkran Oil, etc., A misreference to the fifth amendment, unless the petition was entertained and petition for a rehearing, filed in the state Co. e. ..."

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