zeugmatichttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zeugmatic_adj%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_usezeugmatic, adj.
Revised 2018

zeugmaticadjective

Grammar and Rhetoric.
  1. 1851–
    Characterized by or involving zeugma. Cf. zeugmatical adj.
    1. 1851
      ‘And yet,’ continues he, ‘it cannot be called a Zeugmatic connection [German zeugmatische Verbindung].’
      translation of G. C. A. von Harless in translation of H. Olshausen, Biblical Comm. Galatians, Ephesians, Colossians, & Thessalonians (Eph. i. 10) 142
    2. 1857
      A zeugmatic construction of the accus. with both verbs.
      C. J. Ellicott, Comm. Coloss. ii. 5
    3. 1910
      The verb must be understood to be used in a somewhat zeugmatic way.
      Classical Philology vol. 10 79
    4. 1966
      If the substantive happens to be a quasi-adverbial time-word..the construction is anomalous. In such expressions the verb is zeugmatic.
      Ériu vol. 20 210
    5. 2007
      The front page—..using that lovely zeugmatic US headline style that we don't have—announced: ‘Search on for bodies, answers.’
      Daily Telegraph (Nexis) 6 August 18

Originally published as part of the entry for zeugma, n.

zeugmatic, adj. was revised in June 2018.

zeugmatic, adj. was last modified in July 2023.