[syl.lep.sis] n, pl -lep.ses [L, fr. Gk syllepsis, fr. syllambanein] (ca. 1550) 1: the use of a word to modify or govern syntactically two or sometimes more words with only one of which it formally agrees in gender, number, or case
2: the use of a word in the same grammatical relation to two adjacent words in the context with one literal and the other metaphorical in sense -- syl.lep.tic adj