Found 2 hits - Term: zeugma, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
zeugma \zeug"ma\, n. l., from gr. ?, fr. ? to yoke, join. see
yoke. gram.
a figure by which an adjective or verb, which agrees with a
nearer word, is, by way of supplement, referred also to
another more remote; as, "hic illius arma, hic currus fuit;"
where fuit, which agrees directly with currus, is referred
also to arma.
1913 webster
see also:
yoke
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
zeugma
n : use of a word to govern two or more words though appropriate
to only one; "`mr. pickwick took his hat and his leave'
is an example of zeugma"
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