Acyrology

//ˌæsɪˈɹɒləd͡ʒi// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The incorrect use of language. Early, Modern, archaic, uncountable

    "Ancient commentators found the phrase distinctive, as well, but in a peculiar way: one of them labelled [one phrase] an instance of catachresis, a type of solecism. Similarly, Servius calls [another] an instance of acyrology, also a type of solecism."

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"Ancient commentators found the phrase distinctive, as well, but in a peculiar way: one of them labelled [one phrase] an instance of catachresis, a type of solecism. Similarly, Servius calls [another] an instance of acyrology, also a type of solecism."

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