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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

ANAS'TROPHE,
ANAS'TROPHY, n. [Gr. a conversion or inversion.]
In rhetoric and grammar, an inversion of the natural order of words; as saxa per et scopulos, for per saxa et scopulos.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the reversal of the normal order of words [syn: anastrophe, inversion]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Medieval Latin, from Greek anastroph?, literally, turning back, from anastrephein to turn back, from ana- + strephein to turn Date: circa 1550 inversion of the usual syntactical order of words for rhetorical effect — compare hysteron proteron

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. Rhet. the inversion of the usual order of words or clauses. Etymology: Gk anastrophe turning back (as ANA-, strepho to turn)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Anastrophe A*nas"tro*phe, n. [Gr. ?, fr. ? to turn up or back; ? + ? to turn.] (Rhet. & Gram.) An inversion of the natural order of words; as, echoed the hills, for, the hills echoed.