metalepsis Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun substituting metonymy of one figurative sense for another

WordNet

Met`a*lep"sis noun
Etymology
L., fr. Gr. participation, alteration, fr. to partake, to take in exchange; beyond + to take.
Wordforms
plural Metalepses
Definitions
  1. (Rhet.) The continuation of a trope in one word through a succession of significations, or the union of two or more tropes of a different kind in one word.

Webster 1913