Hypallage

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Hypallage \Hy*pal"la*ge\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?, prop., interchange,
     exchange, fr, ? to interchange; ? under + ? to change.]
     (Gram.)
     A figure consisting of a transference of attributes from
     their proper subjects to others. Thus Virgil says, "dare
     classibus austros," to give the winds to the fleets, instead


     of dare classibus austris, to give the fleets to the winds.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           The hypallage, of which Virgil is fonder than any other
           writer, is much the gravest fault in language.
                                                    --Landor.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  hypallage
       n : reversal of the syntactic relation of two words (as in `her
           beauty's face')