missituate

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ situate

Verb

missituate (third-person singular simple present missituates, present participle missituating, simple past and past participle missituated)

1. To situate incorrectly.
   • 1995, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Women and War, page 88:

     Donald W. Hanson mounts what, to my mind, is a not terribly convincing case that Hobbes has been missituated as a founding father of realism, and calls Hobbes's mode of thought "unrealistic," "apolitical," and "transhistorical.'"

   • 1998, Mark H. Bernstein, On Moral Considerability: An Essay on Who Morally Matters, page 91:

     This, of course, is not to deny that suffering tends to impair the functioning of a human, that it tends to inhibit its teleological sojourn, but it is to suggest that Taylor's teleological account of benefits and harms, at least insofar as this phenomenon is concerned, missituates the badness of pain.

   • 2002, Roy A. Sorensen, Pseudo-Problems: How Analytic Philosophy Gets Done:

     Somewhat more severe is the idea that the problem is missituated.

   • 2012, C. Sterling, African Roots, Brazilian Rites, page 128:

     Oliveira overwrites and missituates the political intent of the collective in characterizing the first series of Cadernos Negros as having a “careless use of grammar and language” and “overly simplified structure of texts” (“Cadernos Negros" 102, Writing 68).