Catachresis

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The misapplication of a word or phrase, as the use of blatant to mean "flagrant.”
  • n. The use of a strained figure of speech, such as a mixed metaphor.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • 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.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In rhet.: A figure by which a word is used to designate an object, idea, or act to which it can be applied only by an exceptional or undue extension of its proper sphere of meaning: as, to stone (pelt) a person with bricks; a palatable tone; to display one's horsemanship in riding a mule; to drink from a horn of ivory.
  • n. In philology, the employment of a word under a false form through misapprehension in regard to its origin: thus, causeway and crawfish or crayfish have their forms by catachresis.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. strained or paradoxical use of words either in error (as `blatant' to mean `flagrant') or deliberately (as in a mixed metaphor: `blind mouths')
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    rhetorical device   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    misnomer    abusio   
     
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