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catachresis noun distortion, exaggeration, false collring, false construction, false reading, garbling, incorrect usage, misapplication, misapprehension, miscitation, misconstruction, misexplanation, misexposition, misinterpretation, misjudgment, misreading, misrepresentation, mistake, mistranslation, misunderstanding, misusage, strained sense, wrong interpretation, wrong usage How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Dogmatic works included polemics against various heresies and heretics, the compendious Catachresis (Editor: the misapplication of a word or phrase) (a defence of principal Trinitarian tenets), and a Platonic Dialogue between himself and Macrina, whose Life he also composed--"A gem of hagiography" (Johannes Quasten). IX, I, 5 lists them as metaphor, synecdoche, metonymy, antonomasia, onomatopoeia, metalepsis, allegory, periphrasis, catachresis, and hyperbole. The biblical title prompted the viewer to reflect on this video's trespassing on the traditional space of sculpture, evoking--as a taboo--the catachresis between vision and touch, and between two and three dimensions, that the projection apparatus enforced. |
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