misnomer

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

MISNO'MER,noun In law, the mistaking of the true name of a person; a misnaming. [Misnosmer, as written by Blackstone, must be a corrupt orthography. In no dialect has name, Latin nomen, been written with s, unless by mistake.
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