Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for HYS-TER-OL'O-GY
HYS-TER'O-CELEHYS'TER-ON-PROT'ER-ON
HYS-TER-OL'O-GY, n. [Gr. υστερος and λογος.]
In rhetoric, a figure by which the ordinary course of thought is inverted in expression, and the last put first; called also hysteron proteron.
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