Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Confusion or derangement.
- noun In pathology, fluidity of the vitreons humor of the eye.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A derangement or confusion of any kind, as of words in a sentence, or of humors in the eye.
- noun (Med.) a condition in which the vitreous humor is softened and contains sparkling scales of cholesterin.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun poetics A complicated, interlocking word-order pattern in early Latin verse, demonstrated by Virgil and his contemporaries.
- noun A confused mixture.
- noun rhetoric Confused arrangement of words in a sentence;
Etymologies
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Examples
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A synchysis, or ill-placing of words, of which Tully so much complains in oratory.
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A synchysis, or ill-placing of words, of which Tully so much complains in oratory.
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And the King James 'Bible is capable of synchysis, or ` interlocked word-order': "Yet setteth he the poor on high from affliction, and maketh him families like a flock."
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_unto_ is placed last in the verse, and at the half period, and is redundant, there is the former synchysis in the words "the sword, nor surfeits" which in construction ought to have been placed before the other.
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[Greek: synchysis] [Errata: [Greek: Synchysis]], or Confusion) was
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