資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Metalepsis \Met`a*lep"sis\, n.; pl. {Metalepses}. [L., fr. Gr. ?
   participation, alteration, fr. ? to partake, to take in
   exchange; ? beyond + ? to take.] (Rhet.)
   The continuation of a trope in one word through a succession
   of significations, or the union of two or more tropes of a
   different kind in one word.