ANASTROPHE

ANAS'TROPHE, ANAS'TROPHY, noun [Gr. a conversion or inversion.]In rhetoric and grammar, an inversion of the natural order of words; as saxa per et scopulos, for per saxa et scopulos.

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‖A‐nas″tro‐phe (�), n. [] (Rhet. & Gram.) An inversion of the natural order of words; as, echoed the hills, for, the hills echoed.