hypallage

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

HYPAL'LAGE, noun hypal'largy. [Gr. change, to change.] In grammar, a figure consisting of mutual change of cases. Thus in Virgil, dare classibus austros, for dare classes austris. Hypallage is a species of hyperbaton.
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