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catachresis
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Webster's 1828 Dictionary
CATACHRESIS
n.An abuse of a trope or of words; a figure in rhetoric, when one word is abusively put for another, or when a word is too far wrested from its true signification; as, a voice beautiful to the ear. A catachresis is a trope which borrows the name of one thing to express another, or a harsh trope; as when Milton, speaking of Raphaels descent from heaven, says, he sails between worlds and worlds. Here the novelty of the word sails enlivens the image. So in scripture we read of the blood of the grape. Deuteronomy 32:14.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
CATACHRESIS
Cat `a *chre "sis, n. Etym: [L. fr. Gr. (Rhel.)
Defn: A figure by which one word is wrongly put for another, or by which a word is wrested from its true signification; as, "To take arms against a sea of troubles. " Shak. "Her voice was but the shadow of a sound. " Young.
New American Oxford Dictionary
catachresis
cat a chre sis |ˌkatəˈkrēsis ˌkædəˈkrisɪs | ▶noun ( pl. catachreses |-sēz | ) the use of a word in a way that is not correct, for example, the use of mitigate for militate . DERIVATIVES cat a chres tic |-ˈkrestik |adjective ORIGIN mid 16th cent.: from Latin, from Greek katakhrēsis, from katakhrēsthai ‘misuse, ’ from kata- ‘down ’ (expressing the sense ‘wrongly ’) + khrēsthai ‘use. ’
Oxford Dictionary
catachresis
catachresis |ˌkatəˈkriːsɪs | ▶noun ( pl. catachreses |-siːz | ) [ mass noun ] the use of a word in an incorrect way, for example the use of mitigate for militate . DERIVATIVES catachrestic |-ˈkriːstɪk, -ˈkrɛstɪk |adjective ORIGIN mid 16th cent.: from Latin, from Greek katakhrēsis, from katakhrēsthai ‘misuse ’, from kata- ‘down ’ (expressing the sense ‘wrongly ’) + khrēsthai ‘use ’.
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