zeugma

[Greek, from zeugnymi to join.] [YOKE.] Gram.: The connection of one word with two words or with two clauses, to both of which it does not equally apply; so that, for one of them, another word (to be gathered from the sense of the pa age) must be mentally supplied. Zeugma is therefore a species of ellipsis; both abbreviate discourse. Where the word to be supplied is a form of another in the sentence, as, "I love you, and you [love] me," the construction is elliptical; where the sense requires a different word, as "The sun shall not burn thee by day, neither the moon [injure thee] by night" (Ps. cxxi. 6, Prayer Book), it is zeugma. zeug-mắt-Ic, adj. [ZEUGMA.] Of or pertaining to the figure of speech known as zeugma.