Australian English Meaning of sylleptic

sylleptic

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Definitions and Meaning of sylleptic in English

sylleptic

the use of a word to modify or govern syntactically two or more words with only one of which it formally agrees in gender, number, or case, the use of a word in the same grammatical relation to two adjacent words in the context with one literal and the other metaphorical in sense

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sylleptic

the use of a word to modify or govern syntactically two or more words with only one of which it formally agrees in gender, number, or case, the use of a word in

Aesopian,Allegorical,Catachrestic,Catachrestical,emblemmatic,emblematic,symbolic,symbolic,Aesopic,euphemistic

​​literal,nonfigurative,non-metaphorical,nonsymbolic

syllabuses => syllabuses, syllables => syllables, syllabi => syllabuses, sycophants => sycophants, sycophantically => fawningly,