Definition of "catachrestic" []

• Constituting or related to catachresis (adjective)

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• "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."
• "Its plural is catachreses, its adjectival forms catachrestic and catachrestical."
• "In short, the "metaphorical substitution" is in fact a self-undoing trope that self-deconstructs into the catachrestic imposition of a name."