frigid

1. a) That which transcends the expression appropriate to the thought. (Theophrastus qtd. in Demetrius)

1. b) Frigidity is of fourfold origin, arising from (1) 'strange terms'; (2) 'epithets'... as
when Alcidamas speaks of 'moist sweat'; (3) 'composites,' when words are compounded in a dithyrambic manner, as with the expression
'desert-wandering' which someone uses, and with other pompous expressions of the kind ; (4) 'metaphors,' e.g. 'a crisis pale and trembling.' (Aristotle qtd. in Demetrius)

1. "Chalice unbased is not intabulated." (Theophrastus qtd. in Demetrius)

1. 'It rushed from the hills of Laurium
and disembogued into the sea.' (Demetrius)