a. [f. as prec. + -AL.] Having to do with catachresis; also = prec.
1609. Bp. W. Barlow, Answ. Nameless Cath., 156–7. This … Mis-begotten Catechresticall companion.
1651. Baxter, Inf. Bapt., 88. An abusive Catechresticall sence.
1695. Humfrey, Mediocria, 35. Justification from a law, and not by it, is a Catechrestical speech.
1884. C. A. Briggs, Bibl. Study, 355. Hyperboles, analogies, and loose catachrestical expressions.
