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Metalepsis
Webster's Dictionary
(n.) 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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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Metalepsis'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/m/metalepsis.html. 1828.