Metalepsis

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun The continuation of a trope in one word through a succession of significations, or the union of two or more tropes of a different kind in one word.

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metalepsis
metălepsis, is, f., = μετάληψις, in rhetoric, the use of one word for another which it suggests by a...

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