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 distinction of these members. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 3] Reference
Its plural is catachreses, its adjectival forms catachrestic and catachrestical. From Wordnik.com. [Catachresis and the amusing, awful and artificial cathedral] Reference
In short, the "metaphorical substitution" is in fact a self-undoing trope that self-deconstructs into the catachrestic imposition of a name. From Wordnik.com. [Discontinuous Shifts: History Reading History] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 3] Reference
But I readily endure a catachrestic metalepsis, when it is evident concerning a thing, although it is my wish that our enunciations were always the best accommodated to the natures of the things themselves. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 1] Reference
The whole party, however, and a more amiable never existed, were scared and disgusted into this by the catachrestic language and skeleton half-truths of the systematic divines of the Synod of Dort on the one hand, and by the sickly broodings of the Pietists and Solomon's-Song preachers on the other. From Wordnik.com. [The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge] Reference
For this last, compare catachrestic use of "pudenda" for "pudendum". From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: TIDAL WAVE.] Reference
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