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Definition of Misapplies
1. misapply [v] - See also: misapply
Lexicographical Neighbors of Misapplies
Literary usage of Misapplies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"... or they are lost or destroyed by the negligence or fault of the officer, or
if he misapplies the proceeds of the sale, or retains the goods and does not ..."
2. Heroes and Heroines of Fiction: Modern Prose and Poetry by William Shepard Walsh (1914)
"Costard, in Shakespeare's Love's Labor's Lost (1594), a clown who apes the stilted
language of the Elizabethan courtiers and misapplies it in a fashion that ..."
3. A Glossary to the Works of William Shakespeare by Alexander Dyce (1902)
"... at this time a child: it was his uncle, Sir Edward Mortimer (second son of
the first Earl of March) whose adventures Shakespeare relates and misapplies. ..."
4. A Treatise on the Law of Suretyship and Guarantyby Darius Harlan Pingrey, Howard Clifford Joyce by Darius Harlan Pingrey, Howard Clifford Joyce (1913)
"... though he misapplies it to pay prior delinquencies covered by another bond
with other sureties.34 And a contract of suretyship may act retrospectively ..."
5. The Works of John Locke, in Nine Volumes by John Locke (1824)
"All that he endeavours is to show the bounds of civil power; and that in punishing
others for religion, the magistrate misapplies the force he has in his ..."
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