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Syllepsis.

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A construction in which one word or phrase is understood to fill a parallel syntactic role in two or more clauses or phrases, as with the verb was in She was upstairs, and her husband downstairs.

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A figure in grammar in which two nouns are joined to a verb suitable to only one of them, but suggesting another verb suitable to the other noun; or in which an adjective is similarly used with two nouns.

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[capitalized] [NL.] In entomology, a genus of hemipterous insects.

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A figure by which an adjective or verb, which agrees with a nearer word, is, by way of supplement, referred also to another more remote.

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The act of using a word, particularly an adjective or verb, to apply to more than one noun when its sense is appropriate to only one.

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Syllepsis.

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use of a word to govern two or more words though appropriate to only one