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Definition of Anastrophe
1. Noun. The reversal of the normal order of words.
Definition of Anastrophe
1. n. An inversion of the natural order of words; as, echoed the hills, for, the hills echoed.
Definition of Anastrophe
1. Noun. (rhetoric) Unusual word order, often involving an inversion of the usual pattern of the sentence. ¹
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Definition of Anastrophe
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Anastrophe
Literary usage of Anastrophe
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Greek Grammar for Schools and Colleges by Herbert Weir Smyth (1916)
"N. — In poetry, anastrophe occurs with other ... In Homer a preposition following
its verb also admits anastrophe ..."
2. Grammar of the Greek Language, for the Use of High Schools and Colleges by Raphael Kühner, Bela Bates Edwards (1844)
"anastrophe. When a preposition is placed after the word which it should precede,
the tone of such preposition naturally inclines back to its word, ..."
3. A Grammar of the Homeric Dialect by David Binning Monro (1882)
"... although avá according to most authorities was not liable to anastrophe.
(4) Two Prepositions are barytone in the adverbial use,— ..."
4. A Grammar of the Greek Language by Alpheus Crosby (1860)
"B. anastrophe. in prepositions of two short syllables, the accent is usually
thrown lack upon the penult, when they follow the words which they would ..."
5. A Rhetorical Grammar: In which Improprieties in Reading and Speaking are by John Walker (1822)
"anastrophe, or Inversion, is a figure by which we place last, and perhaps at a
great distance from the beginning of the sentence, what, according to the ..."
6. A Greek Grammar for the Use of High Schools and Universities by Philipp Buttmann, Edward Robinson (1833)
"1 ) When they stand in the figure anastrophe* ie after the noun which they govern
... anastrophe ..."
7. Neuman and Baretti's Dictionary of the Spanish and English Languages by Henry Neuman, Giuseppe Baretti (1851)
"anastrophe, an inver sion of words, whereby those which should have been precedent
are postponed. ..."
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