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Hysteron proteron
Hysteron proteron Hys"te*ron prot"e*ron [NL., fr. Gr. ? the latter, following + ? before, others, sooner.] (Rhet.) (a) A figure in which the natural order of sense is reversed; hysterology; as, valet atque vivit, ``he is well and lives.' (b) An inversion of logical order, in which the conclusion is put before the premises, or the thing proved before the evidence.

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- The hysteron proteron (from the Gr****: ὕστερον πρότερον, hýsteron próteron, "later earlier") is a rhetorical device. It occurs when the first key word...
- The Hysteron Proteron Club, sometimes spelt "Husteron Proteron", was a dining club at Balliol College, Oxford, in the 1920s. The name refers to a hysteron...
- Colonel the Hon. George Hysteron-Proteron CB (c. 1874–1942) is a fictional character created by the author J. K. Stanford. A British soldier, sporting...
- with pre-posterous (lit. "with the hinder part before", compare hysteron proteron, "upside-down", "head over heels", "****-backwards" etc.) or sopho-more...
- line 230: "May not an **** know when the cart draws the horse?" Hysteron-proteron Wag the dog Look up put the cart before the horse in Wiktionary, the free...
- Hysteresis, the dependence of the state of a system on its history Hysteron proteron, a rhetorical device Four discourses, a concept by Jacques Lacan, including...
- kill one's own grandfather generates a circular contradiction Hysteron proteron – Figure of speech reversing a natural or rational order Irony – Rhetorical...
- Commoners. A junior boy was asked to obtain a book called Pempe ton moron proteron (Ancient Gr****: Πέμπε τον μωρών προτέρων, 'Send the fool further'); each...
- Odyssey Rediscovering Homer "Odysseus' Scar" Hermoniakos' Iliad Hysteron proteron Epithets in Homer Dactylic hexameter Translations "On First Looking into...
- γεγόνοι, νὺξ ἢ ἡμέρα; "νύξ, μιᾷ ἡμέρᾳ πρότερον. Tì próteron gegónoi, nùx ḕ hēméra? núx, miâi hēmérāi próteron. "Which is older, day or night? "Night is the...