catachresis

Example Sentences

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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

It is a sort of quaint alteration or catachresis of Possunt quia posse videntur.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by Saintsbury, George

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

Tis true, no poet but may sometimes use a catachresis.

From An English Garner Critical Essays & Literary Fragments by Arber, Thomas Seccombe, Professor

And yet, after a vast deal of such like catachresis, the orthodoxy of plagiarism remains still in dispute.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. by Various