nounWord forms: plural -ses (-siːz)1. (in grammar or rhetoric) the use of a single sentence construction in which a verb, adjective, etc is made to cover two syntactical functions, as the verb form have in she and they have promised to come
2. another word for zeugma
Word origin
C16: from Late Latin, from Greek
sullēpsis, from
sul- syn- +
lēpsis a taking, from
lambanein to take