10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CATACHRESTICAL»
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Simplifications: An Introduction to Structuralism and ...
Spivak goes on to write: Current post-colonial claims to the names that are the
legacy of the European enlightenment (sovereignty, constitutionality, self-
determination, nationhood, citizenship, even culturalism) are catachrestical
claims, their ...
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Twentieth Century Literary Criticism
She asserts: Current postcolonial claims to the names that are the legacy of the
European enlightenment (sovereignty, constitutionally, self-determination,
nationhood, citizenship, even culturalism) are catachrestical claims, their strategy
a ...
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Encyclopædia metropolitana; or, Universal dictionary of ...
CATACHRESTICAL, adj. Fr. catachrese, catachres- Hque ; Gr. Kaiaxpao/tai, (
from jtaTo and x/5"0/"",) I use against or contrary, sc. to its purpose ; I abuse. Fr.
catachrese, " the abuse, or necessary use of one word for lack of another more
proper ...
Encyclopaedia, Edward Smedley, 1845
Why such catachrestical titles? Why "characteristic" when there i3 nothing
characterized ? Mr. Aspinwall, in his turn (if he has a dictionary), might object that
" catachrestical " is a farfetched synonyme, for for-fetched ; and that we had better
have ...
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The Psychology and Politics of the Collective: Groups, ...
This means—and here the rhetorical dimension comes to the fore—that such
representation will be constitutively tropological. Even more: it will be
catachrestical. We have catachresis whenever an object can only be named by a
figural term to ...
Ruth Parkin-Gounelas, 2012
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Encyclopaedia metropolitana: or Universal dictionary of ...
The inhabitants of the whole Province are supposed not to exceed 10,000. The
Capital has the same name, though it is sometimes called Tumbabamba j but it
does not deserve a particular description. CATACHRESTICAL, adj. Fr.
catachrese ...
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Questioning Foundations: Truth, Subjectivity and Culture
21. 22. or metaphor.” We appropriate this term to indicate the originary "abuse"
constitutive of language-production, where both concept and metaphor are "
wrested from their proper meaning" (OED: “catachrestical"). Thus, in the narrow
sense, ...
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GTropología: a key to open Scripture metaphors [by B. Keach ...
K*t*xp*"*i Catachresis, is called in Latin aJusio/an abuse, not as if the sacred
scripture had abused any words, but because the things that are catachrestical,
differ in some things from the custom of speaking tropically, and have a harder ...
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The Mystery of Rhetorick Unveiled: Wherein Above 130 of the ...
Explained thus: Cadmm being the first Finder out of divers of the Greek Letters,
they are by a Metonymy of the cient, called his Daughters : And Cddmusis
Daughters here, by a Catachrestical Metaphor, signifieth the Greek Letters, _ *
Nilotifs ...
John Smith (of Mountague Close, Southwark.), 1721
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Tropologia: A Key, to Open Scripture Metaphors, in Four ...
Kwexrmm, Catachresis, is called in Latin abusio, an abuse, not as if the sacred
scripture had abused any words, but because the things that are catachrestical,
differ in some things from the custom of speaking tropically, and have a harder ...
Benjamin Keach, Thomas De Laune, 1856
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Daily Lexeme: Facinorous
When shall … the catachrestical reasonings of facinorous aristocrats be dispanded? Click on the word for etymology, pronunciation and further ... «New York Times, Jun 10»
