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1. (n.) zeugma
the use of a word to modify or govern two or more words when it is appropriate to only one of them or is appropriate to each but in a different way, as in to wage war and peace or He caught a trout and a bad cold.
Etymology: (1515–25; < Gk zeûgma=zeug(nýnai) to join, yoke+-ma n. suffix of result)
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1. (noun) zeugma
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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1. (noun) zeugma
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
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