Usage examples (7)

• The first mode is synecdochical, the second common, the third metonymical; I add that the third might properly be called catachrestic if we attend to the just...
• Its plural is catachreses, its adjectival forms catachrestic and catachrestical.
• In short, the "metaphorical substitution" is in fact a self-undoing trope that self-deconstructs into the catachrestic imposition of a name.
• For I had examined various passages in your writings, and in them I found that the word was used by you in the last sense, which you here call catachrestic.