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Zeugma n. : 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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Taxonomy
zeugma, syllepsis, clauses, nihil, hypozeugma, free encyclopedia, Rhetorica ad Herennium, fight, Henry Peacham, shame, Harvard University Press, periodic sentence, ear, Hypozeuxis, Latin, fear, Finching, morbo.

Defination from the web:
zeugma employs both ellipsis, the omission of words which are easily understood, and parallelism, the balance of several words or phrases. ... A syllepsis is a particular kind of zeugma, and there is a clear distinction between the two in classical treatises written on the subject. ... 

synonyms
  (noun) figure
  (noun) figure of speech
  (noun) image
  (noun) trope


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