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Definition of the day : « catachresis »
- As in misuse : noun abuse; wrong application
- As in barbarism : noun crudity, savagery, especially in speech
- You must listen to the definition of a catachresis:—'A catachresis is the boldest of any trope.
- Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 4 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
- It is a sort of quaint alteration or catachresis of Possunt quia posse videntur.
- Extract from : « A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 » by George Saintsbury
- It is true that might be taken by catachresis to designate a chamberlain as functionary of the Oriental Court.
- Extract from : « The Apostles » by Ernest Renan
- The hyperbole and catachresis are so nearly related to a bull, that I shall dwell upon them with pleasure.
- Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 4 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
- Life is attributed to plants, only by a species of metaphor or catachresis.
- Extract from : « A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 7 (of 10) » by Franois-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire)
- And yet, after a vast deal of such like catachresis, the orthodoxy of plagiarism remains still in dispute.
- Extract from : « The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 » by Various
- No expression so terse and yet so striking could dispense with the classicism and the catachresis of "stoically."
- Extract from : « A History of English Literature » by George Saintsbury
- In this sense the proverb is current by a misuse, or a catachresis at least of both the words, Fortune and Fools.
- Extract from : « The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III » by Various
- In this sense the proverb is current by a misuse, or a catachresis at least, of both the words, fortune and fools.
- Extract from : « Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit » by Samuel Taylor Coleridge