HYPERBATON, in grammar, a figurative construction inverting the natural and proper order of words and sentences. The several species of the hyperbaton are, the anastrophe, the hysseron-proteron, the hypallage, synchysis, tmesis, parenthesis, and the hyperbaton strictly so called. See ANASTROPHE, &c.
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HYPERBATON, in grammar, a figurative construction inverting the natural and proper order of words and sentences
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