Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a catachrestical manner; by catachresis.
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- adverb In a
catachrestic way.
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Examples
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The truest friends of our Church are they, who say boldly when her rulers are going wrong, and the consequences; and (to speak catachrestically) _they_ are most likely to die in the Church, who are, under these black circumstances, most prepared to leave it.
Apologia Pro Vita Sua John Henry Newman 1845
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The truest friends of our Church are they, who say boldly when her rulers are going wrong, and the consequences; and (to speak catachrestically) _they_ are most likely to die in the Church, who are, under these black circumstances, most prepared to leave it.
Apologia pro Vita Sua John Henry Newman 1845
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