catachrestic
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Catachresis, incorrect use of a word: My catachrestic family!
From Washington Post ● Jul. 5, 2018
OED notices this catachrestic form of "beatified" 32: All-be-devill'd Paper.
From Anti-Achitophel (1682) Three Verse Replies to Absalom and Achitophel by John Dryden by Harold Whitmore Jones
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