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catachresis

/kat-uh-kree-sis/US // ˌkæt əˈkri sɪs //UK // (ˌkætəˈkriːsɪs) //

催化作用,催化反应,催化器,催化

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : misuse or strained use of words, as in a mixed metaphor, occurring either in error or for rhetorical effect.

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Examples

  • No expression so terse and yet so striking could dispense with the classicism and the catachresis of "stoically."

  • In this sense the proverb is current by a misuse, or a catachresis at least, of both the words, fortune and fools.

  • In this sense the proverb is current by a misuse, or a catachresis at least of both the words, Fortune and Fools.

  • And yet, after a vast deal of such like catachresis, the orthodoxy of plagiarism remains still in dispute.

  • It is true that might be taken by catachresis to designate a chamberlain as functionary of the Oriental Court.