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- adjective
catachrestic
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- adjective constituting or characterized by or given to catachresis
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Examples
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Its plural is catachreses, its adjectival forms catachrestic and catachrestical.
Catachresis and the amusing, awful and artificial cathedral 2009
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I begged leave, in assenting to his doctrine, to differ from his application of it, as we ought not to risk, by using a figurative expression, the exciting of any absurd images or catachrestical ideas.
Rattlin the Reefer Edward Howard 1820
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