How To Use catachrestic In A Sentence
- _OED_ notices this catachrestic form of "beatified Anti-Achitophel (1682) Three Verse Replies to Absalom and Achitophel by John Dryden
- _OED_ notices this catachrestic form of "beatified Anti-Achitophel (1682) Three Verse Replies to Absalom and Achitophel by John Dryden
- But I readily endure a catachrestic metalepsis, when it is evident concerning a thing, although it is my wish that our enunciations were always the best accommodated to the natures of the things themselves. The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 1
- The whole party, however, and a more amiable never existed, were scared and disgusted into this by the catachrestic language and skeleton half-truths of the systematic divines of the Synod of Dort on the one hand, and by the sickly broodings of the Pietists and Solomon's-Song preachers on the other. The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- But I readily endure a catachrestic metalepsis, when it is evident concerning a thing, although it is my wish that our enunciations were always the best accommodated to the natures of the things themselves. The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 1
- Its plural is catachreses, its adjectival forms catachrestic and catachrestical. Catachresis and the amusing, awful and artificial cathedral
- The first mode is synecdochical, the second common, the third metonymical; I add that the third might properly be called catachrestic if we attend to the just distinction of these members. The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 3
- In short, the "metaphorical substitution" is in fact a self-undoing trope that self-deconstructs into the catachrestic imposition of a name. Discontinuous Shifts: History Reading History
- For I had examined various passages in your writings, and in them I found that the word was used by you in the last sense, which you here call catachrestic. The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 3
