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synchysisnoun
A complicated, interlocking word-order pattern in early Latin verse, demonstrated by Virgil and his contemporaries.
synchysisnoun
A confused mixture.
synchysisnoun
Confused arrangement of words in a sentence;
Etymology: Through from the σύγχυσις (sýnchysis), "a mixing".
Wikipedia
Synchysis
Synchysis is a rhetorical technique wherein words are intentionally scattered to create bewilderment, or for some other purpose. By disrupting the normal course of a sentence, it forces the audience to consider the meaning of the words and the relationship between them.
Webster Dictionary
Synchysisnoun
a derangement or confusion of any kind, as of words in a sentence, or of humors in the eye
Etymology: [NL., fr. Gr. , fr. to confound; sy`n with + to pour.]
Wikidata
Synchysis
Synchysis is an interlocked word order, in the form A-B-A-B; which often display change and difference. This poetry form was a favorite with Latin poets. They are often employed to demonstrate such change within the event in which they are situated; on occasion, there are synchyses within a poem which were not intended but happened to be written in such a way. It is described by Silva Rhetoricae as "Hyperbaton or anastrophe taken to an obscuring extreme, either accidentally or purposefully." A synchysis may be opposed to chiasmus, which is in the form A-B-B-A. A line of Latin verse in the form adjective A - adjective B - verb - noun A - noun B, with the verb in the center, is known as a golden line. A highly common occurrence in Virgil's Aeneid, it is first seen in the work in line four: "Vi superum, saevae memorem Iunonis ob iram," with Saevae modifying Iunonis, and memorem modifying iram. The Latin system of case endings makes such a verse possible. The line, if it should be read entirely based on word order, would read "By the force of the gods above, of cruel remembering of Juno on account of anger" as opposed to the correct translation "By the force of the gods above, on account of the remembering anger of cruel Juno."
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Synchysis
sing′ki-sis, n. (rhet.) confusion of meaning due to unusual arrangement: fluidity of the vitreous humour of the eye. [Gr. syngchysis—syn, together with, chein, to pour.]
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of synchysis in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of synchysis in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
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