Definitional inconsistencies notwithstanding, catachresis is a fascinating feature of language. From Wordnik.com. [Catachresis and the amusing, awful and artificial cathedral] Reference
Poetic licence aside, catachresis is often just a mistake, as we have seen, e.g. flaunt for flout, ecliptic for eclectic. From Wordnik.com. [Catachresis and the amusing, awful and artificial cathedral] Reference
As telling as the term catachresis would be the word setzen. From Wordnik.com. [Double-Take. Reading De Man and Derrida Writing on Tropes.] Reference
You must listen to the definition of a catachresis: -- 'A catachresis is the boldest of any trope. From Wordnik.com. [Tales and Novels — Volume 04] Reference
The word catachresis arrived, through the Latin word of the same spelling, from the Greek katakhrēsis, excessive use, from katakhrēsthai, to misuse or use up. From Wordnik.com. [Catachresis and the amusing, awful and artificial cathedral] Reference
From now on I shall try to avoid to call a catachresis, what after I’ve been moving to my last dwelling six feet under might be comme il fault. From Wordnik.com. [Catachresis and the amusing, awful and artificial cathedral] Reference
Life is attributed to plants, only by a species of metaphor or catachresis. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
My overriding aim is to develop a model of political metaphor as catachresis. From Wordnik.com. [Critical Presentism] Reference
That "'expression in the poet'" is a catachresis standing in for another figure. From Wordnik.com. [Double-Take. Reading De Man and Derrida Writing on Tropes.] Reference
The OED defines catachresis as ‘(An instance of) the incorrect use of words’. From Wordnik.com. [Catachresis and the amusing, awful and artificial cathedral] Reference
V. -- I like that catachresis, but once again I repeat, I am practical, and prefer synedoche. From Wordnik.com. [Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 3, January 19, 1884. A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside] Reference
Aristotle's texts, derives the possibility of tropological substitution from the catachresis "sun as sower.". From Wordnik.com. [Introduction] Reference
The technical term for this last phenomenon is catachresis, though the word has other meanings, as we will see. From Wordnik.com. [Catachresis and the amusing, awful and artificial cathedral] Reference
Strangely but perhaps suitably, dictionary definitions of catachresis diverge from the sense of semantic drift. From Wordnik.com. [Catachresis and the amusing, awful and artificial cathedral] Reference
By synecdoche, if it refers to the whole series of acts opposed to Predestination; by catachresis, if it refers to non-election. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 3] Reference
Whether or not words formed by catachresis are, strictly speaking, new words depends on how strict you are about such categorisation. From Wordnik.com. [Catachresis and the amusing, awful and artificial cathedral] Reference
And there was a soupcon of catachresis in, the bitter swill of civil war and segregation, which Obama read with the rising intonation that evoked Martin Luther King. From Wordnik.com. [Analyzing The Text Of Obama's Inaugural Address] Reference
Grammatical catachresis seems to include lexical catachresis, which he illustrates with examples such as infer for imply, and refute for deny, contradict (without argument). From Wordnik.com. [Catachresis and the amusing, awful and artificial cathedral] Reference
In both cases it is an obvious use of the rhetorical figure called catachresis. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference
Unless he is specifically skilled in rhetoric or poetry, however, he may balk at catachresis. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 1] Reference
In this sense the proverb is current by a misuse, or a catachresis at least of both the words, Fortune and. From Wordnik.com. [The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III] Reference
The hyperbole and catachresis are so nearly related to a bull, that I shall dwell upon them with pleasure. From Wordnik.com. [Tales and Novels — Volume 04] Reference
The stone furze ditches are scarcely bolder instances of the catachresis than the stone tables of shittim-wood. From Wordnik.com. [Tales and Novels — Volume 04] Reference
No expression so terse and yet so striking could dispense with the classicism and the catachresis of "stoically.". From Wordnik.com. [A History of Elizabethan Literature] Reference
As for the sign: It’s certainly a designed catachresis of human anatomy. From Wordnik.com. [Moonwalking into the second dimension] Reference
"metonymy" is a blind, mutilated metonymy — in fact, more of a catachresis than a metonymy. From Wordnik.com. [Discontinuous Shifts: History Reading History] Reference
Thesis xii, "But if reprobation is made the opposite of election, (as it really is,) it is a figurative expression, that is either by synecdoche, or by catachresis. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 3] Reference
Partridge’s fellow New Zealander Robert Burchfield, in the third edition of Fowler’s Modern English Usage, distinguishes between grammatical and rhetorical catachresis. From Wordnik.com. [Catachresis and the amusing, awful and artificial cathedral] Reference
Thus "White Mythology" jolts at the catachresis. From Wordnik.com. [Double-Take. Reading De Man and Derrida Writing on Tropes.] Reference
And this is the figure called catachresis. From Wordnik.com. [On Christian Doctrine, in Four Books] Reference
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