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Definition of Syllepsis
1. Noun. Use of a word to govern two or more words though agreeing in number or case etc. with only one.
Definition of Syllepsis
1. n. A figure of speech by which a word is used in a literal and metaphorical sense at the same time.
Definition of Syllepsis
1. Noun. (rhetoric) A figure of speech in which one word simultaneously modifies two or more other words such that the modification must be understood differently with respect to each modified word; often causing humorous incongruity ¹
2. Noun. (botany) Growth in which lateral branches develop from a lateral meristem, without the formation of a bud or period of dormancy, when the lateral meristem is split from a terminal meristem. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Syllepsis
1. [n -LEPSES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Syllepsis
Literary usage of Syllepsis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Theoretical and Practical Grammar of the French Tongue: In which the by Jean-Pons-Victor Lecoutz de Levizac, Stephen Pasquier (1833)
"There is likewise a syllepsis in these sentences : Je crains qu'il ne vienne.
... There is again a very elegant syllepsis in-sentences like the following ..."
2. A Theoretical and Practical Grammar of the French Language: In which the by Levizac (Jean Pons Victor Lecoutz), Anthony Bolmar (1844)
"The syllepsis is a figure by which a word relates more to our meaning than ...
There is likewise a syllepsis in these sentences : Je crains qu'il ne vienne. ..."
3. Forensic Oratory: A Manual for Advocates by William Callyhan Robinson (1893)
"Figures of Words : Natural Meaning: Ellipsis: Hyperbaton : syllepsis : Pleonasm.
Of the four figures of words employed in their natural meaning, ..."
4. Forensic Oratory: A Manual for Advocates by William Callyhan Robinson (1893)
"Figures of Words: Natural Meaning: Ellipsis: Hyperbaton : syllepsis : Pleonasm.
Of the four figures of words employed in their natural meaning, ..."
5. The English Language in Its Elements and Forms: With a History of Its Origin by William Chauncey Fowler (1855)
"syllepsis, from the Greek avA^jp/tff, taken together, is a trope by which a word
is taken in two senses, the literal and the metaphorical; when we conceive ..."
6. A Theoretical and Practical Grammar of the French Tongue: In which the by Jean-Pons-Victor Lecoutz de Levizac, Stephen Pasquier (1833)
"There is likewise a syllepsis in these sentences : Je crains qu'il ne vienne.
... There is again a very elegant syllepsis in-sentences like the following ..."
7. A Theoretical and Practical Grammar of the French Language: In which the by Levizac (Jean Pons Victor Lecoutz), Anthony Bolmar (1844)
"The syllepsis is a figure by which a word relates more to our meaning than ...
There is likewise a syllepsis in these sentences : Je crains qu'il ne vienne. ..."
8. Forensic Oratory: A Manual for Advocates by William Callyhan Robinson (1893)
"Figures of Words : Natural Meaning: Ellipsis: Hyperbaton : syllepsis : Pleonasm.
Of the four figures of words employed in their natural meaning, ..."
9. Forensic Oratory: A Manual for Advocates by William Callyhan Robinson (1893)
"Figures of Words: Natural Meaning: Ellipsis: Hyperbaton : syllepsis : Pleonasm.
Of the four figures of words employed in their natural meaning, ..."
10. The English Language in Its Elements and Forms: With a History of Its Origin by William Chauncey Fowler (1855)
"syllepsis, from the Greek avA^jp/tff, taken together, is a trope by which a word
is taken in two senses, the literal and the metaphorical; when we conceive ..."
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