catachresis

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The stone furze ditches are scarcely bolder instances of the catachresis than the stone tables of shittim-wood.

From Tales and Novels — Volume 04 by Edgeworth, Maria

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 Lodge, Henry Cabot

In this sense the proverb is current by a misuse, or a catachresis at least, of both the words, fortune and fools.

From Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit and Some Miscellaneous Pieces by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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 Smith, James

And yet, after a vast deal of such like catachresis, the orthodoxy of plagiarism remains still in dispute.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. by Various