Enallage

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Enallage \E*nal"la*ge\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ? an exchange, fr. ? to
     exchange; ? in + ? to change.] (Gram.)
     A substitution, as of one part of speech for another, of one
     gender, number, case, person, tense, mode, or voice, of the
     same word, for another.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  enallage
       n : a substitution of part of speech or gender or number or
           tense etc. (e.g., editorial `we' for `I')