catachresis

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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

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

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

"The fury of his fancy often transported him beyond the bounds of judgment, either in coining of new words and phrases, or racking words which were in use, into the violence of catachresis."

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 by Various

This journal was, at the period in question, rather remarkable for the use of the figure called by the rhetoricians catachresis.

From Rejected Addresses by Smith, James

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 Literary Remains, Volume 2 by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor