1) Misinterpretation
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1) Rhetorical device 2) Term for a mixed metaphor
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Catachresis (from Greek κατάχρησις, `abuse`), originally meaning a grammatical misuse or error—e.g., using `militate` for `mitigate`, `decimate` for `devastate`, `our mutual friend` for `our friend in common`, `chronic` for `severe`, `anachronism` for `anomaly`, `alibi` for `excuse`, etc.—is also the name gi...
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incorrect usage of a word
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an eccentric metaphor.
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• (n.) 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.
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(Grk. 'misuse') A completely impossible figure of speech or an implied metaphor that results from co
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An eccentric metaphor.
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Cat`a·chre'sis noun [ Latin from Greek ... misuse, from ... to misuse;
kata` against + ... to use.]
(Rhet.) 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 ...
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Catachresis is a figure in rhetoric, when a word is too far wrested from its true signification; as, to speak of tones being made more palatable for 'agreeable to the ear.' So in Scripture we read of the blood of the grape. The term is also used in philolology for the employment of a word under a false form through misapprehension in regard to its ...
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a harsh metaphor involving the use of a word beyond its strict sphere.
*I listen vainly, but with thirsty ear. MacArthur, Farewell Address
*Cynthia prima suis miserum me cepit ocellis. Propertius I.1.1
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n] - strained or paradoxical use of words either in error (as `blatant` to mean `flagrant`) or deliberately (as in a mixed metaphor: `blind mouths`)
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The inexact use of a similar word in place of the proper one to create an unlikely metaphor
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noun strained or paradoxical use of words either in error (as `blatant` to mean `flagrant`) or deliberately (as in a mixed metaphor: `blind mouths`)
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