Webster's 1828 Dictionary
HYPERBATON, HYPERBATE
n.[Gr. to transgress, or go beyond. ] In grammar, a figurative construction, inverting the natural and proper order of words and sentences. The species are the anastrophe, the hysteron proteron, the hypallage, the synchysis, the tmesis, the parenthesis, and the proper hyperbaton, which last is a long retention of the verb which completes the sentence.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
HYPERBATON
Hy *per "ba *ton, n. Etym: [L., fr. Gr. (Gram. )
Defn: A figurative construction, changing or inverting the natural order of words or clauses; as, "echoed the hills " for "the hills echoed. " With a violent hyperbaton to transpose the text. Milton.
New American Oxford Dictionary
hyperbaton
hy per ba ton |hīˈpərbəˌtän haɪˈpərbətɑn | ▶noun Rhetoric an inversion of the normal order of words, esp. for the sake of emphasis, as in the sentence “ this I must see. ” ORIGIN mid 16th cent.: via Latin from Greek huperbaton ‘overstepping ’ (from huper ‘over, above ’ + bainein ‘go, walk ’).
Oxford Dictionary
hyperbaton
hyperbaton |hʌɪˈpəːbətɒn | ▶noun Rhetoric an inversion of the normal order of words, especially for the sake of emphasis, as in the sentence ‘ this I must see ’. ORIGIN mid 16th cent.: via Latin from Greek huperbaton ‘overstepping ’ (from huper ‘over, above ’ + bainein ‘go, walk ’).
Duden Dictionary
Hyperbaton
Hy per ba ton Substantiv, Neutrum Rhetorik , das Hyperbasis |Hyp e rbaton |das Hyperbaton; Genitiv: des Hyperbatons, Plural: die Hyperbata lateinisch hyperbaton < griechisch hypérbaton Trennung syntaktisch zusammengehörender Wörter durch eingeschobene Satzteile z. B. wenn er ins Getümmel mich von Löwenkriegen reißt [Goethe ]
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