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Definition of Catachrestic
1. Adjective. Constituting or characterized by or given to catachresis.
Partainyms: Catachresis, Catachresis
Derivative terms: Catachresis, Catachresis
Definition of Catachrestic
1. a. Belonging to, or in the manner of, a catachresis; wrested from its natural sense or form; forced; far-fetched.
Definition of Catachrestic
1. Adjective. constituting or related to catachresis ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Catachrestic
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Catachrestic
Literary usage of Catachrestic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Hand-book of the English Language: For the Use of Students of the by Robert Gordon Latham (1860)
"Did, catachrestic.—In the phrase this will do = this will answer the purpose,
the word do is wholly ..."
2. The English Language by Robert Gordon Latham (1855)
"Did, catachrestic.—In the phrase this will do rr this will answer the purpose,
... Became, catachrestic. —• The catachresis, abuse, or confusion between do ..."
3. The Sacraments: An Inquiry Into the Nature of the Symbolic Institutions of by Robert Halley (1844)
"The catachrestic mode of speech 1 Was ever anything so vexatiously disappointing?
We were to be favoured with the sight of a real baptism, ..."
4. Infant Baptism: A Scriptural Service, and Dipping Unnecessary to Its Right by Robert Wilson (1848)
"The correct interpretation discovers in the passage only one emblem of the Spirit,
and thus completely explodes Dr. Carson's catachrestic immersion. ..."
5. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1884)
"... or was transferred to figurative and analogical uses; and of those which have
obsolete or catachrestic senses. And(4.)№«'™- tice quotations, showing by ..."
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