synchysis synchysis
 sin'-ki-sis from Gk. synkein, "to mingle, confuse"
Also sp. synchisis, synchesis
confusio

  The confused arrangement of words in a sentence; hyperbaton or anastrophe taken to an obscuring extreme, either accidentally or purposefully.

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Sources: Bede 614-15; Peacham (1577) G1r


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