in Grammar, a figurative construction inverting the natural and proper order of words and sentences. The several species of the hyperbaton are, the anaclastic, the hyperon-proteron, the hypallage, lynchysis, tmesis, parentheses, and the hyperbaton strictly so called. See Anastrophe, &c.

Hyperbaton, strictly so called, is a long retention of the verb which completes the sentence, as in the following example from Virgil:

Interea Reges: ingenti mole Latinus Quadririgio vehitur curru, cui tempora circum Aurati bis sex radii fulgentia cingunt, Solis avi specimen: bigis it Turnus in albis, Bina manu lato cribrans haftilia ferro: Hinc Pater Æneas, Romana stirpis origo, Sidereo fragrans clypeo et celestibus armis; Et justa Æcanthus, magna fides altera Roma: Procedunt caffrit.