misapplication

Grotius assured him it was a falshood; and that what had been said of the misapplication of the Subsidies was a gross calumny.

Those who excel in letters, and in the right use of letters, are sensitive to their misapplication.

So flies burn themselves in candles, deceived like mankind by the misapplication of their knowledge.

The blunder arose from that misapplication of the word "Indian," first made by Columbus, as we formerly explained.

But these were mistaken attributes, which arose from a misapplication of history.