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 hysteron-proteron, the hypallage, synchysis, tmesis, parenthesis, 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:

Interca Reges: ingenti mole Latinus Quadrijugo vehitur curru, cui tempora circum Aurati bis sex radii fulgentia cingunt, Solis avi specimen: bigis it Turnus in albis, Bina manu lato crispanis hastilia ferro: Hinc Pater Æneas, Romane stirpis origo; Sidereo flagrans elypto et coelestibus armis; Et juxta Ascanius, magna spes altera Roma: Procedunt castris.