catachresis
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Tis true, no poet but may sometimes use a catachresis.
From An English Garner Critical Essays & Literary Fragments by Arber, Thomas Seccombe, Professor
As to “twinn'd stones”—may it not be a bold catachresis for muscles, cockles, and other empty shells with hinges, which are truly twinned?
From Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
The stone furze ditches are scarcely bolder instances of the catachresis than the stone tables of shittim-wood.
From Tales and Novels — Volume 04 by Edgeworth, Maria
‘Liquorish,’ by catachresis for lickerish = tempting to the appetite, causing one to lick one’s lips.
From Milton's Comus by Bell, William
In this sense the proverb is current by a misuse, or a catachresis at least of both the words, Fortune and Fools.
From The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III by Lodge, Henry Cabot
Vocabulary lists containing catachresis
Reading: Literature - Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - High School
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