syllepsis

[Gr. =a taking together, from the same root as syllable (q. v.).] Rhetoric and Grammar : 1. A figure of speech by which we conceive the sense of words otherwise than the words import, and construe them according to the intention of the author; the taking of words in two senses at once, the literal and the metaphorical (as sweeter in the extract.) "The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb." Psalm xix. 9, 10. 2. A figure by which one word is referred to another in the sentence to which it does not grammatically belong, as the agreement of a verb or adjective with one rather than another of two nouns, with either of which it might agree; as rex et regina beati.