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A figure in which the natural order of sense is reversed; hysterology; as, valet atque vivit, "he is well and lives."
An inversion of logical order, in which the conclusion is put before the premises, or the thing proved before the evidence.
Origin: NL, fr. Gr. The latter, following + before, others, sooner.
(01 Mar 1998)
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