catachresis

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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

You must listen to the definition of a catachresis:—'A catachresis is the boldest of any trope.

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

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 Literary Remains, Volume 2 by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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