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Webster 1913 Edition
Syllepsis
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1.
(Rhet.)
A figure of speech by which a word is used in a literal and metaphorical sense at the same time.
2.
(Gram.)
The agreement of a verb or adjective with one, rather than another, of two nouns, with either of which it might agree in gender, number, etc.; as, rex et regina beati.
Webster 1828 Edition
Syllepsis
SYLLEP'SIS
,Noun.
1.
In grammar, a figure by which we conceive the sense of words otherwise than the words import, and construe them according to the intention of the author; otherwise called substitution.2.
The agreement of a verb or adjective, not with the word next to it, but with the most worthy in the sentence; as, rex et regina beati.