aphorismus

Figure Name aphorismus
Source Silva Rhetoricae (http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/Silva.htm)
Earliest Source None
Synonyms
Etymology None
Type Chroma
Linguistic Domain Morphological
Semantic
Definition

Calling into question the proper use of a word.

Example

For you have but mistook me all this while.
I live with bread like you, feel want,
Taste grief, need friends: subjected thus,
How can you say to me I am a king?
—Shakespeare, Richard II 3.2.174-177

Kind Of Opposition
Part Of
Related Figures
Notes
Confidence Confident
Last Editor Allan McDougall
Confidence Confident
Editorial Notes Added Morphological due to word meanings. Added Opposition to Type Of because word meanings are being opposed.
Reviewed Yes
Reviewer Allan McDougall