单词 | hysterology |
释义 | hysterologyn.1 Grammar and Rhetoric. Now rare. The inversion of the logical or conventional order of elements in speech or writing, esp. for rhetorical effect, e.g. I die! I faint! I fail!; an instance of this. Cf. hysteron proteron n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of structure or thought > [noun] > inversion > unusual or abnormal hysterology1555 hysteron proteron1555 hysterosis1600 prothysteron1886 1555 R. Sherry Treat. Figures Gram. & Rhetorike f. xviijv Hysterologia when the preposicion is not put vnto the nowne whereunto it serueth, but to the verbe, as though it were compound with it, thus. 1613 F. Mason Of Consecration Bishops v. v. 225 There are many Hysterologies in holy Scripture, and therefore no maruell if there be one here. 1657 W. Morice Coena quasi Κοινὴ Def. xi. 129 These Notes are..never used to manifest an hysterology, or transposition of things. 1684 S. E. Answer Remarks upon Dr. H. More 156 Here therefore is an Hysterology in the Cortex. 1712 M. Maittaire Eng. Gram. 211 Hysterology is a sort of Metathesis or Transposition of the order of Words..; e.g. what and if, John 6.62. for and what if. 2007 D. Macey tr. D.-R. Dufour Art of Shrinking Heads (2008) i. 70 Here is a (literary) example of hysterology borrowed from Jarry: ‘I'll light the fire while I wait for him to get the firewood.’ This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † hysterologyn.2 Medicine. Obsolete. rare. (The title of) a treatise dealing with the uterus. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > study of body > study of other parts > [noun] > of uterus hysterology1848 1848 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (ed. 7) 448/1 Hysterology, a treatise on the sound and morbid uterus. 1872 E. N. Chapman (title) Hysterology, a Treatise, Descriptive and Clinical, on the Diseases and the Displacements of the Uterus. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020). < n.11555n.21848 |
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