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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 syl·lep·sis /səˈlɛpsəs/
 一語雙敘法,兼用法,軛語法

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Syl·lep·sis n.
 1. Rhet. A figure of speech by which a word is used in a literal and metaphorical sense at the same time.
 2. Gram. The agreement of a verb or adjective with one, rather than another, of two nouns, with either of which it might agree in gender, number, etc.; as, rex et regina beati.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 syllepsis
      n : use of a word to govern two or more words though agreeing in
          number or case etc. with only one
      [also: syllepses (pl)]