Hysterology

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

  Hysterology \Hys`ter*ol"o*gy\, n. [Gr. ?; ? the latter + ?
     discourse: cf. F. hyst['e]rologie.] (Rhet.)
     A figure by which the ordinary course of thought is inverted
     in expression, and the last put first; -- called also
     {hysteron proteron}.
     [1913 Webster]