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  • Zeugma

    (Greek ‘yoke’)

    Thomas Thomas's Latin-English dictionary (1587) translates this as "A figure whereby many clauses are ioyned with one verb," but zeugma also describes the linking of two nouns with a verb as long as the verb's meaning is altered in the shift from one noun to another.