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What is a catachresis?

What is a catachresis? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A misuse of a word; an application of a term to something which it does not properly denote.
  2. (rhetoric) A misapplication or overextension of figurative or analogical description; a wrongly-applied metaphor or trope.
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And yet, after a vast deal of such like catachresis, the orthodoxy of plagiarism remains still in dispute.
The hyperbole and catachresis are so nearly related to a bull, that I shall dwell upon them with pleasure.
Life is attributed to plants, only by a species of metaphor or catachresis.
Its transformation seems more catachresis than irony, more a twisted similarity than an inversion or negation.
It is true that might be taken by catachresis to designate a chamberlain as functionary of the Oriental Court.
In this sense the proverb is current by a misuse, or a catachresis at least, of both the words, fortune and fools.

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