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Zeugma

Grammatic Poetics! A rhetorical figure in which a word or phrase is made to apply, in different senses, to two (or more) others, or (formerly) when it agrees grammatically with only one.

Source

OED

Examples

Here Thou, great Anna! whom three Realms obey, Dost sometimes Counsel take—and sometimes Tea. — A. Pope, Rape of Locke i, in Miscellaneous Poems 359

Works that use this form

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