— metaleptic, metaleptical , adj. — metaleptically , adv.
/met'euh lep"sis/ , n. , pl. metalepses /-seez/ . Rhet.
the use of metonymy to replace a word already used figuratively.
[ 1580-90; metálepsis, equiv. to meta- META- + lep-, var. s. of lambánein to take + -sis -SIS ]