Catachresis

[Gr., a misuse.] ( Rhet. ) An abuse of words; the use of a word in a sense different from its own; as, "the blood of the grape." - See METAPHOR. Catachres'tic, Catachres'tical, a. Belonging to a catachresis; far-fetched. "A catachrestical and far-derived similitude."-Browne.