Since it’s not the word that’s new but only its meaning, I think

“neosemantic” would be closer, but I’m not happy with it. I checked with my

main reference book on rhetoric, Arthur Quinn’s Figures of Speech, but it

had nothing to offer. Some of the usages we’ve been talking about come

under familiar figures like synecdoche and metonymy, of course, but we

really need a more general term that encompasses any new usage, however it

is derived from the original. Reader comments welcome.