misprofess

English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ profess.

Verb

misprofess (third-person singular simple present misprofesses, present participle misprofessing, simple past and past participle misprofessed)

1. (transitive) To profess falsely; to teach incorrectly or make an incorrect claim.
   • 1624, John Donne, Devotions upon Emergent Occasions:

     Keep me back, O Lord, from them who misprofess arts of healing the soul, or of the body, by means not imprinted by thee in the church for the soul, or not in nature for the body.

   • 2002, David T. Ozar, David J. Sokol, Dental Ethics at Chairside, page 291:

     Consequently, such actions miseducate the public and misprofess what dentistry is about, and they violate the dentist's obligations to integrity and education.