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CATACHRESIS

Volume 6 · 46 words · 1860 Edition

(*κατά* against, and *χρησίς* use), a trope which borrows a term of one idea to express another: as when Milton, in describing Raphael's descent from heaven to paradise, says he "sails between worlds and worlds." So in Scripture we read of the "blood of the grape."