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Zeugma

noun
1.
Use of a word to govern two or more words though appropriate to only one.





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"Zeugma" Quotes from Famous Books



... the splendor of his assistance, and told him he was resolved to pass through Mesopotamia, where he had left a great many brave Roman soldiers; whereupon the Armenian went his way. As Crassus was taking the army over the river at Zeugma, he encountered preternaturally violent thunder, and the lightning flashed in the faces of the troops, and during the storm a hurricane broke upon the bridge, and carried part of it away; two thunderbolts fell upon the very place where the army was going to encamp; and one of the ...
— Plutarch's Lives • A.H. Clough


Words linked to "Zeugma" :   image, syllepsis, figure of speech, trope, figure


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