Definition of "syllepsis" []

• A construction in which a word governs two or more other words but agrees in number, gender, or case with only one, or has a different meaning when applied to each of the words, as in He lost his coat and his temper. (noun)

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• "Surely someone like Hofmeister will be able to skim enough to put away a tidy nest egg of several hundred million at least in Euros and Amstersdam (pardon the syllepsis)."
• "I think this is the most entertaining Volokh thread since syllepsis!"
• "= For Ovid's use of syllepsis, see at vi 16 _spem nostram terras deseruitque simul_ (p 234)."