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Definition: HYSTEROLOGY

Part of Speech Definition
Noun 1. A figure by which the ordinary course of thought is inverted in expression, and the last put first; -- called also hysteron proteron.[Websters].

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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Date "Hysterology" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references)

Definition: HYSTEROLOGY

Part of SpeechDefinition
Noun1. A figure by which the ordinary course of thought is inverted in expression, and the last put first; -- called also hysteron proteron.[Websters].

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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Date "HYSTEROLOGY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references)