enallage

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

ENAL'LAGE, noun enal'lajy. [Gr. change.] A figure, in grammar, by which some change is made in the common mode of speech, or when one word is substituted for another; as exercitus victor, for victoriousus; scelus, for scelestus.
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