Miscall vs Becall - What's the difference?
miscall | becall |
To call (someone) bad names; to insult, abuse.
* , II.xii:
*1644 , (John Milton), Aeropagitica :
*:He there exhorts us to hear with patience and humility those, however they be miscall'd , that desire to live purely, in such a use of Gods Ordinances, as the best guidance of their conscience gives them, and to tolerat them, though in some disconformity to our selves.
To call (something) by the wrong name.
* 1969 , Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor , Penguin 2011, p. 48:
To accuse.
*1878 , (Thomas Hardy), (The Return of the Native)
*:You must not becall me for laughing when you spoke; you mistook when you thought I laughed at you as a foolish man.
*2009 , Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews and Shamela - Page 203 :
(obsolete) To call upon; call forth; challenge.
(obsolete) To call; summon.
To call names; miscall.
As verbs the difference between miscall and becall
is that miscall is to call (someone) bad names; to insult, abuse while becall is to accuse.miscall
English
Verb
(en verb)- But one aboue the rest in speciall, / That had an hog beene late, hight Grille by name, / Repined greatly, and did him miscall , / That had from hoggish forme him brought to naturall.
- ‘In this country, peasants miscall it “Cowslip,” though of course the true Cowslip, Primula veris , is a different plant altogether.’
becall
English
Verb
(en verb)- I no sooner see him, but I scream out to Mrs. Jervis, she feigns likewise but just to come to herself; we both begin, she to becall , and I to bescratch very liberally.