syllepsis

IPA: sˈɪɫɛpsɪs

(rhetoric) A figure of speech in which one word simultaneously modifies two or more other words such that the modification must be understood differently with respect to each modified word; often causing humorous incongruity.
(botany) Growth in which lateral branches develop from a lateral meristem, without the formation of a bud or period of dormancy, when the lateral meristem is split from a terminal meristem.

Examples of "syllepsis" in Sentences

I think this is the most entertaining Volokh thread since syllepsis!
But ignorance of the article doesn't seem syllepsis 1 minute ago 7:26 PM
Man and Nature, but Man himself is a syllepsis, a compendium of Nature — the
= For Ovid's use of syllepsis, see at vi 16 _spem nostram terras deseruitque simul_ (p 234).
Progrezzive: This is how the checks and balances are suppose to syllepsis 14 minutes ago 7:12 PM
This is a typical instance of Ovid's love of _syllepsis_, of giving a single verb two objects (or more), each of which uses a different meaning of the verb.
Surely someone like Hofmeister will be able to skim enough to put away a tidy nest egg of several hundred million at least in Euros and Amstersdam (pardon the syllepsis).
Incidentally, you might recognise that rhetorical shimmy as a variation of syllepsis: a fairly easy word to avoid, it must be admitted, but as hair-raising for me to pronounce as
These know not the figure syllepsis, by which one name is put for many, and many for one; as Paul in the Epistle to the Hebrews says, "They were sawn asunder," [Heb 11: 37] when it is thought that one only,
GOATLEY3: Sorry but I'm not willing to spill one more drop Here we go again, another kinetic military action for humanitari lqw: Here we go again, another kinetic military action for humanitarian syllepsis 29 minutes ago 10:36 PM I wonder why they haven't bombed Assad's compound yet.