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‖ hyperbaton Gram. and Rhet.|haɪˈpɜːbətɒn|
Also 6 hiper-, -tone.
[a. L. hyperbaton, a. Gr. ὑπέρβατον, literally ‘overstepping’, f. ὑπερβαίνειν (ὑπέρ over + βαίνειν to step, walk).]
A figure of speech in which the customary or logical order of words or phrases is inverted, esp. for the sake of emphasis. Also, an example of this figure.
(The substantive is first recorded in Latin authors (Quintilian and Pliny); but Plato and Aristotle use the verbal adj. ὑπερβατός with reference to transpositions in language.)
1579E. K. Gloss. Spenser's Sheph. Cal. May, A patheticall parenthesis, to encrease a carefull Hyperbaton. 1599Thynne Animadv. (1875) 56 The sence..ys ‘the fende makethe this’ for whiche Chaucer vsethe these wordes by Transpositione, (accordinge to the rethoricall figure Hiperbatone), ‘This makethe the fende’. 1641Milton Animadv. v. (1851) 223 If your meaning be with a violent Hyperbaton to transpose the Text. 1727H. Herbert tr. Fleury's Eccl. Hist. I. 62 There are so many..hyperbatons and transpositions, which render his stile difficult. 1776G. Campbell Philos. Rhet. (1801) II. 348 We have here a considerable hyperbaton..there being no less than thirteen words interposed between the noun and the preposition. 1866Bain Eng. Composit. 38 The Hyperbaton..is purposed inversion..before announcing something of great emphasis and import, thus giving to a meditated expression the effect of an impromptu. |