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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

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distortion exaggeration false construction garbling incorrect usage misapplication misapprehension miscitation misconception misconstruction misexplanation misexposition misinterpretation misjudgment misquotation misreading misrepresentation mistake mistranslation			23) In a rhetorical move decidedly similar to Bhabha's "metonymy of presence" Jesus named the moral location of his culture of discipleship the kingdom (basileiva)of God catachrestically invoking that other kingdom, the Empire of Rome. Imperial aspirations, religious freedom and public education by Plagge, Peter O. / Forum on Public Policy: A Journal of the Oxford Round Table Despite his theoretical indebtedness to Foucault, Said asserts his right to differ with him and to use his theory catachrestically in a way that will later be the main method of post-colonial thinkers in their adoption of Western methodological sources. Said and Achebe: writers at the crossroads of culture by AbdelRahman, Fadwa / Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics			castigation castigatory casting away casting of ballots casting out Casting vote castoff casual Casual ejector casualness casualties casualty casualty loss casuistic casuistical casuistry Casuproviso casus Casus Belli casus foederis Casus foedoris Casus fortuitus Casus fortuitus non est sperandus Casus omissus catachresis catachrestically cataclysm cataclysmal cataclysmic Catalla juste possessa amitti non possunt Catalla repuntantur inter minima in lege catalog catalogue Catalogue fraud charge catalogue of persons catalyst catapult cataract catastrophe catastrophic catastrophical catch catch a glimpse of catch again catch by artifice catch by perfidy catch fire catch phrase catch sight of catch the attention catch the eye			catabolites catabolize catabolize catabolize catabolized catabolized catabolized catabolizes catabolizes catabolizing catabolizing Catacala Catacana Catacana Catacaustic Catachism Catachism catachosis catachreses catachreses catachreses catachresis catachresis catachresis catachrestic catachrestic catachrestic catachrestical catachrestical catachrestical catachrestically catachronobiology Cataclasis Cataclasis Cataclasite Cataclasm Cataclastic Cataclastic cataclastic metamorphism cataclastic rock cataclastic structure cataclinal cataclysm cataclysm cataclysm cataclysmal cataclysmal cataclysmal cataclysmic cataclysmic cataclysmic Cataclysmic Binary Cataclysmic geology Cataclysmic geology Cataclysmic variable Cataclysmic variable Cataclysmic variable star Cataclysmic Variables Alert Programme cataclysmically cataclysmically cataclysmically

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