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enallage|ɛˈnælədʒiː| Also 7–8 enallagy, enalagy. [a. L. enallagē, a. Gr. ἐναλλαγή change, related to ἐναλλάσσειν to change.] 1. Gram. The substitution of one grammatical form for another, e.g. of sing. for pl., of present for past tense, etc.
1583Fulke Defence 126 In the participle..is a manifest enallage or change of the gender. 1614Selden Titles Hon. 115 Their Grammarians make it [Elohim] an Enallage of Number..to express excellencie. 1656Owen Wks. 1851 VIII. 403 There may be an enallagy of number, the nation for the nations. 1737Waterland Eucharist (ed. 2) 373 Enallage of tenses, which is frequent in Scripture. 1832in Webster; and in mod. Dicts. †2. Rhet. (See quot.) Obs.—0
1736Bailey, Enallage, a figure whereby we change or invert the order of the terms in a discourse. |