Emily Dickinson Lexicon

E-NAL'LA-GE, n. [enal'lajy; Gr. εναλλαγη, change; εναλλαττω, to change; εν and αλλαττω.]

A figure in grammar, by which some change is made in the common mode of speech, or when one word is substituted for another; as, exercitus victor, for victoriosus; scelus, for scelestus. Encyc.