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Catachresis

n.

  1. the use of a word in a way that is not correct, for example, the use of mitigate for militate. Also the name given to many different types of figures of speech in which a word or phrase is being applied in a way that significantly departs from conventional (or traditional) usage.

Catamite

n.

  1. a boy kept for homosexual practices

[Adlai Arnold, in conversation]

Cathect

v.

  1. to invest with mental or emotional energy

[A Handbook of Disappointed Fate — Anne Boyer]

Also: cathexis (n.) from bell hooks