<p><strong>Noun:</strong></p><ul><li>Grammar, Rhetoric:<ul><li>The use of a word to modify or govern two or more words when it is appropriate to only one of them or is appropriate to each but in a different way.</li><li>Example: "to wage war and peace" or "On his fishing trip, he caught three trout and a cold."</li><li>Compare with syllepsis.</li></ul></li></ul>