solecized

Updated: May 16, 2025

In that, verily, they solecized and spoke improperly, unless you would excuse them by a trope, which alloweth us to posit the inventor in the place of the thing invented, as when Ceres is taken for bread, and Bacchus put instead of wine.

François Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3