Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for HYS'TER-ON-PROT'ER-ON
HYS-TER-OL'O-GYHYS-TE-ROT'O-MY
HYS'TER-ON-PROT'ER-ON, n. [Gr. υστερον, last, and πρετερον, first.]
A rhetorical figure, when that is said last which was done first. Peacham.
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