| hysterologia | |
| his-ter-o-lo'-gi-a | from Gk. histeros, "later" and logia, "speech" |
| prepostera loquutio | |
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A form of hyperbaton or parenthesis in which one interposes a phrase between a preposition and its object. | |
| Also, a snynonym for hysteron proteron (see Sherry). | ||
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interrupting material in the following sentence is bolded: I jumped into with as much enthusiasm as a teenager has hormones my speech on abstinence. |
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| Schemes of grammatical construction | ||
| Sources: | Bede 614 Sherry (1550) 31 ("hysterologia," "prepostera loquutio") | |
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