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anatopism rare.|əˈnætəpɪz(ə)m|
[f. Gr. ἀνά up + τόπ-ος a place + -ism.]
A putting of a thing out of its proper place, a faulty arrangement.
1812Coleridge Rem. I. 317 In arranging which [books] the puzzled librarian must commit an anachronism in order to avoid an anatopism. 1850De Quincey Wks. XVI. 72 Geographical blunders, or what might be called anatopisms. |