Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for A-NAS'TRO-PHE, or A-NAS'TRO-PHY
A-NAS'TRO-PHE, or A-NAS'TRO-PHY, n. [Gr. αναστροφη, a conversion or inversion.]
In rhetoric and grammar, an inversion of the natural order of words; as, saxa per et scopulos, for per saxa et scopulos. – Encyc.
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