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zeugmatic

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zeug⋅ma

  [zoog-muh]
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–noun Grammar, Rhetoric.
the use of a word to modify or govern two or more words when it is appropriate to only one of them or is appropriate to each but in a different way, as in to wage war and peace or On his fishing trip, he caught three trout and a cold.
Compare syllepsis.

Origin:
1515–25; < Gk zeûgma a yoking, equiv. to zeug(nýnai) to yoke 1 + -ma n. suffix of result

Related forms:
zeug⋅mat⋅ic  [zoog-mat-ik] , adjective
zeug⋅mat⋅i⋅cal⋅ly, adverb
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zeugma 
1586, "a single word (usually a verb or adj.) made to refer to two or more words in a sentence," from Gk., lit. "a yoking," from zeugnynai "to yoke" (see jugular).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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