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 Henry Cabot Lodge
"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 James Smith
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 Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The hyperbole and catachresis are so nearly related to a bull, that I shall dwell upon them with pleasure.
From Tales and Novels — Volume 04 by Maria Edgeworth
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