‖ hysterosis Gram. and Rhet.
(hɪstəˈrəʊsɪs)
[med. or mod.L., f. Gr. ὕστερος later, after such words as anadiplosis, etc.]
= hysteron proteron.
| 1620 Granger Div. Logike 318 note, Hysteron Proteron, Hysterosis, Hysterologia. 1623 Lisle ælfric on O. & N. Test. To Rdr. 15 He speakes by Hysterosis or Anachronisme (a figure much vsed in Historie, yea euen in the Bible). a 1658 J. Durham Exp. Revelation xxi. (1680) 641 There will hardly be found any such hysterosis or hysterologia in one and the same explicatory prophesie. |