synchesis

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A form of synchysis — A complicated, interlocking word-order pattern in early Latin verse, demonstrated by Virgil and his contemporaries.

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Meanings

nounsynchesis (countable and uncountable, plural syncheses)

plural syncheses

  1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of synchysis.

    Similar to tmesis is synchesis or the total jumbling of word order in an expression. Both tmesis and synchesis are necessary in poetry because they facilitate the poet's composition of particular rhythms and meters.

    1996, William Michael Purcell, Ars Poetriae, page 28
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