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Definition of Catachreses
1. catachresis [n] - See also: catachresis
Lexicographical Neighbors of Catachreses
Literary usage of Catachreses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Problems and Methods of Literary History: With Special Reference to Modern by André Morize (1922)
"... and catachreses. Suddenly Emile gave clamorous utterance to the quarrel that
until then had stirred only specialists or a few of the more curious. ..."
2. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1847)
"These catachreses are precisely on a par with several of ' MARIANNA'S similes;
like two in the fourth stanza, especially. ..."
3. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage by Inc. Merriam-Webster (1994)
"1987 The catachreses are the use of ecliptic for eclectic and materialize for
capitalize. Catachresis has become part of the jargon of 20thcentury usage ..."
4. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1805)
"... and, in the choice of his catachreses and compound epithets, he never suffers
his enthusiasm to run away with his taste. Like Hafez and Hariri, ..."
5. The London Magazine by John Scott, John Taylor (1821)
"... He studied metaphors and figures, Tropes, similes, and catachreses, That both
Quintilian and Longinus Should over-reach or undermine us. ..."
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