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Anastrophe

ANAS'TROPHE, ANAS'TROPHY, n. [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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ANAS'TROPHE,

ANAS'TROPHY, n. [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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