"Misapplication" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... independent and eternal self-existence, and so introduced a dualism of mind and matter. In the Mind or Intelligence, Anaxagoras included not only life and motion, but the moral principles of the noble and good; and probably used the term on account of the popular misapplication of the word "God," and as being less liable to misconstruction, and more specifically marking his idea. His "Intelligence" principle remained practically liable to many of the same defects as the "Necessity" of the poets. It was the presentiment of ...
— Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry • Albert Pike
... of a verb, some teachers choose to understand nothing more than the naming of its principal parts; giving to the arrangement of its numbers and persons, through all the moods and tenses, the name of declension. This is a misapplication of terms, and the distinction is as needless, as it is contrary to general usage. Dr. Bullions, long silent concerning principal parts, seems now to make a singular distinction between "conjugating" and "conjugation." ...
— The Grammar of English Grammars • Goold Brown
... its absurdities Dead, the sympathy towards Descendants, their numbers ascertained Distilleries, the bad policy of encouraging them Dimsdale, Sir Harry, Mayor of Garrat Don Saltero, his museum Dolland's achromatics, their misapplication Dormitories of avarice described Dreams, no prognostics Dramas of real life Druids, their impostures Drunkenness, its pernicious effects ——, its cause Dundas, his baneful orgies Dunstan, Sir Jeffery, Mayor ...
— A Morning's Walk from London to Kew • Richard Phillips
... which means that which ought to be read, is, from the early misapplication of the term by impostors, now used by us as if it meant—that which ought to be laughed ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 74, March 29, 1851 • Various
... the unuseful, and, therefore, unattainable, arts. 3. Of the nature, ends, application, and use, of different capacities. 4. Of the use of learning, of the science of the world, and of wit. It will conclude with a satire against the misapplication of all these, exemplified by ...
— The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes - Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II • Samuel Johnson
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