单词 | metalepsis |
释义 | metalepsis —metaleptic, metaleptical, adj. —metaleptically, adv. /met'euh lep"sis/, n. , pl. metalepses /-seez/. Rhet. the use of metonymy to replace a word already used figuratively. [1580-90; < L < Gk metálepsis, equiv. to meta- META- + lep-, var. s. of lambánein to take + -sis -SIS] |
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