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Definition of Hysteron proteron

Hysteron proteron
Hysteron proteron Hys"te*ron prot"e*ron [NL., fr. Gr. ? the latter, following + ? before, others, sooner.] (Rhet.) (a) A figure in which the natural order of sense is reversed; hysterology; as, valet atque vivit, ``he is well and lives.' (b) An inversion of logical order, in which the conclusion is put before the premises, or the thing proved before the evidence.

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- The hysteron proteron (from the Gr****: ὕστερον πρότερον, hýsteron próteron, "later earlier") is a rhetorical device. It occurs when the first key word...
- The Hysteron Proteron Club, sometimes spelt "Husteron Proteron", was a dining club at Balliol College, Oxford, in the 1920s. The name refers to a hysteron...
- Colonel the Hon. George Hysteron-Proteron CB (c. 1874–1942) is a fictional character created by the author J. K. Stanford. A British soldier, sporting...
- as with pre-posterous (lit. "with the hinder part before", compare hysteron proteron, "upside-down", "head over heels", "****-backwards" etc.) or sopho-more...
- Hypozeuxis: every clause having its own independent subject and predicate. Hysteron proteron: the inversion of the usual temporal or causal order between two elements...
- fallacy involves only a single variable, it is sometimes called a hysteron proteron (Gr**** for 'later earlier'), a rhetorical device, as in the statement:...
- writing, sometimes called sublime; Longinus's theme in On the Sublime. Hysteron proteron – a rhetorical device in which the first key word of the idea refers...
- to kill one's own grandfather generates a circular contradiction Hysteron proteron – Figure of speech reversing a natural or rational order Irony – Rhetorical...
- the Odyssey Rediscovering Homer "Odysseus' Scar" Hermoniakos' Iliad Hysteron proteron Epithets in Homer Dactylic hexameter Translations "On First Looking...
- Pelham Francis Warner (1873–1963) J. K. Stanford, creator of George Hysteron-Proteron, wrote in 1964 that "George... owed his origin to a face in the East...