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Meaning of "catachresis" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD CATACHRESIS

From Latin, from Greek katakhrēsis a misusing, from katakhrēsthai, from khrēsthai to use.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF CATACHRESIS

ˌkætəˈkriːsɪs


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CATACHRESIS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Catachresis is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES CATACHRESIS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Catachresis

Catachresis, originally meaning a grammatical misuse or error—e.g., using "militate" for "mitigate", "decimate" for "devastate", "our mutual friend" for "our friend in common", "chronic" for "severe", "anachronism" for "anomaly", "alibi" for "excuse", etc.—is also the name given to many different types of figure of speech in which a word or phrase is being applied in a way that significantly departs from conventional usage.

Definition of catachresis in the English dictionary

The definition of catachresis in the dictionary is the incorrect use of words, as luxuriant for luxurious.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CATACHRESIS

antipyresis · cataphoresis · diaphoresis · diuresis · electrophoresis · encopresis · enuresis · hysteresis · immunoelectrophoresis · iontophoresis · natriuresis · oliguresis · paraparesis · paresis · perichoresis · pheresis · synchoresis · synderesis · taboparesis · uresis

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CATACHRESIS

catabolite · catabolize · catacaustic · catachrestic · catachrestical · catachrestically · cataclases · cataclasis · cataclasm · cataclasmic · cataclastic · cataclinal · cataclysm · cataclysmal · cataclysmic · cataclysmically · catacomb · catacombs · catacoustics · catacumbal

WORDS THAT END LIKE CATACHRESIS

anaphoresis · anuresis · aphaeresis · apheresis · barophoresis · diaeresis · dieresis · general paresis · genesis · hypothesis · Nemesis · pathogenesis · photophoresis · plasmapheresis · proairesis · synaeresis · syneresis · synteresis · synthesis · thesis

Synonyms and antonyms of catachresis in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «catachresis» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF CATACHRESIS

Find out the translation of catachresis to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of catachresis from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «catachresis» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

catachresis
1,325 millions of speakers
es

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catachresis
570 millions of speakers
en

English

catachresis
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

catachresis
380 millions of speakers
ar

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catachresis
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

катахрезы
278 millions of speakers
pt

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catacrese
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

শব্দের অপপ্রয়োগ
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

catachrèse
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Catachresis
190 millions of speakers
de

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catachresis
180 millions of speakers
ja

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catachresis
130 millions of speakers
ko

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catachresis
85 millions of speakers
jv

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Catachresis
85 millions of speakers
vi

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catachresis
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

சொற்களைத் தகா வழியில்
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

कॅचा्रेसिसिस
75 millions of speakers
tr

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catachresis
70 millions of speakers
it

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catachresis
65 millions of speakers
pl

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katachrezy
50 millions of speakers
uk

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катахрези
40 millions of speakers
ro

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catachresis
30 millions of speakers
el

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catachresis
15 millions of speakers
af

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catachresis
14 millions of speakers
sv

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catachresis
10 millions of speakers
no

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catachresis
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of catachresis

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CATACHRESIS»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about catachresis

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CATACHRESIS»

Discover the use of catachresis in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to catachresis and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Ends of Rhetoric: History, Theory, Practice
.he first thing that strikes one in the history of the terms "metaphor" and " catachresis" is the apparently unnecessary confusion of the two, since the difference between them was clearly defined as early as Quintilian's discussion of catachresis in ...
John B. Bender, David E. Wellbery, 1990
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Readings in Interpretation: Hölderlin, Hegel, Heidegger
But the trouble is that the relation between the use and the abuse of trope, between the tropological system and catachresis, is not an opposition: rather than a nontrope (or a "nonmetaphor, " "nonmetonymy," or "nonsynecdoche"), catachresis ...
Andrzej Warminski, 1987
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Anthropo-logiques 6 (1995). Quel «discours de la méthode» ...
Given that all vocabulary used to describe God is borrowed (via catachresis) from another isotope (not proper to the divine), all such words are ultimately inadequate. Bourguet points ouL however, that since there are strictly speaking no words ...
Brian Doyle, 2000
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The Choice of Achilles: The Ideology of Figure in the Epic
This representational mode and the trope that describes it are marked from the first by the very violence and monstrosity that they serve to generate. Quintilian, for whom such marking is a necessary part of figuration, uses the term " catachresis" ...
Susanne Lindgren Wofford
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Translating Investments: Metaphor and the Dynamic of ...
Catachresis and Mctaphor: "Be Bold, Be Bold, Be Not Too Bold" in the Latin Rhetorical Tradition and Its Renaissance Adaptors Twice in recent chapters, I have invoked Richard Lanham's definition of catachresis as a wrenching of metaphor or ...
Judith H. Anderson, 2005
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Coping with Joyce: Essays from the Copenhagen Symposium
In a system characterized by processual mimesis, ictus mimes the moment of death or semantic infinity within the "double gesture" (to use Derrida s term from " The Double Session") of catachresis. Like epiphany, catachresis serves to clear an ...
Morris Beja, Shari Benstock, 1989
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Imagining Joyce and Derrida: Between Finnegans Wake and Glas
Catachresis is the only possible way of sketching this scene. Catachresis also intervenes in Derrida's analysis in response to his question on the metaphors of metaphor: '[C]an these defining tropes that are prior to all philosophical rhetoric and ...
Peter Mahon, 2007
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The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
of a bed. Augustine gives the example of piscina: the word denotes a swimming pool or tank, despite the complete absence of fish (piscis; De doctrina christiana .). According to this most straightforward analysis, catachresis functions like  ...
Roland Greene, Stephen Cushman, Clare Cavanagh, 2012
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Philosophical Perspectives on Metaphor
So viewed, metaphor is a species of catachresis, which I shall define as the use of a word in some new sense in order to remedy a gap in the vocabulary. Catachresis is the putting of new senses into old words.8 But if a catachresis serves a ...
Mark Johnson, 1981
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The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics: Fourth Edition
of a bed. Augustine gives the example of piscina: the word denotes a swimming pool or tank, despite the complete absence of fish (piscis; De doctrina christiana .). According to this most straightforward analysis, catachresis functions like  ...
Stephen Cushman, Clare Cavanagh, Jahan Ramazani, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CATACHRESIS»

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Beachcomber: 98 years old and STILL as authentic as brass
... over the name of the current owner or how it was acquired. The Serious Catachresis Squad are said to be watching the sale intently. «Express.co.uk, Jun 15»
2
Game Review: Epanalepsis
... point and click games from the designer/developer Cameron Kunzelman, whose previous releases include the horror game Catachresis. «Nouse, May 15»
3
Epanalepsis arriving soon from Mastertronic, watch the trailer here
Some of his previous works include the horror game, Catachresis, and Oh No, featuring the disembodied head of Michel Foucault, and Slavoj ... «Flickering Myth, May 15»
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New Texts Out Now: Joseph A. Massad, Islam in Liberalism
Rather, it often seems that all of them are in play interchangeably in the same text, as well as across texts, thus rendering “Islam” a catachresis ... «Jadaliyya, Mar 15»
5
Pedants of the world, we salute you
It is the work of the satirist to mock human follies, just as grammarians laugh at catachresis. Grammarians are martyred under the name of ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Feb 15»
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Guardian masterclass: the essentials of grammar with David Marsh
How the hell does one “speak daggers” he asks? And “Curiouser and curiouser”. This is catachresis. Facebook Twitter Google plus. Share. «The Guardian, Sep 14»
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Geoffrey Hill
Could language utter truth without catachresis, deviation, superfluity or decoration? Swift shows us the two extremes adumbrated by language ... «The Fortnightly Review, Aug 14»
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From Hundreds To Millions - 'Epanelepsis', 'The Deer God' And …
Kunzelman has used Kickstarter twice before, asking for small amounts: the spiritual successor to Epanalepsis, Catachresis, asked for a measly ... «Forbes, Aug 14»
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Glow-in-the-Dark Jigsaw Pieces
... they can be synthesized, their relation or nonrelation is not simply that of parataxis; rather they become a kind of implicit syntactic catachresis, ... «Hyperallergic, Aug 14»
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Why tenure?
It requires continual lateral procrastinations, a critical-methodological catachresis that (self-)destructs revisions of canonicity by means of ... «Duke Chronicle, Feb 14»
REFERENCE
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