Editing Catachresis (section)

==Variant definitions==

There are various characterizations of catachresis found in the literature.

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| Crossing categorical boundaries with words, because there otherwise would be no suitable word.<ref>[[Max Black]] discusses this phenomenon at some length, designating them catachrestic substitution metaphors: Black, M., ''Models and Metaphors: Studies in Language and Philosophy'' (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1962).</ref><ref name="Stolow2012">Pierre Fontanier, ''Les Figures du discours'' (Paris: Flammarion, 1977 [orig. 1821–1830]), p. 214.</ref>|| The sustainers of a chair being referred to as ''legs''.
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| Replacing an expected word with another, [[half rhyme|half rhyming]] (or a partly sound-alike) word, with an entirely different meaning from what one would expect (cf [[malapropism]], [[Spoonerism]], [[aphasia]]).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.03.0082%3Apart%3DTropes%3Asubpart%3DCatachresis |title=Henry Peachum., The Garden of Eloquence (1593): Tropes, part Tropes, Catachresis |publisher=Perseus.tufts.edu |accessdate=13 May 2013}}</ref> || ''I'm ravished!'' for "I'm ravenous!" or for "I'm famished!"  "They build a ''horse''" instead of they build a house.
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| The strained use of an already existing word or phrase.<ref name="Sickle2010">{{cite book|author=John Van Sickle|title=Virgil's Book of Bucolics, the Ten Eclogues Translated into English Verse: Framed by Cues for Reading Aloud and Clues for Threading Texts and Themes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ccgliv5fUPIC&pg=PA18|date=29 December 2010|publisher=JHU Press|isbn=978-0-8018-9961-4|page=18}}</ref>
|| "Tis deepest winter in Lord Timon's purse" – [[Shakespeare]], ''[[Timon of Athens]]''
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| The replacement of a word with a more ambiguous synonym (cf [[euphemism]]).<ref name="Clogan1997">{{cite book|author=Paul Maurice Clogan|title=Historical Inquiries|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3biBSyTkc7IC&pg=PA19|date=1 January 1997|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-0-8476-8674-2|page=19}}</ref>
|| Saying ''job-seeker'' instead of "unemployed".
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