HY'PERBATE, n. [Gr. to transgress, or go beyond.
In grammar, a figurative construction, inverting the natural and proper order of words and sentences. The species are the anastrophe,the hysteron proteron, the hypallage, the synchysis, the tmesis, the parenthesis, and the proper hyperbaton, which last is a long retention of the verb which completes the sentence.
