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Definition of Chiastic
1. chiasmus [adj] - See also: chiasmus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chiastic
Literary usage of Chiastic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Historical Outlines of English Syntax by Leon Kellner (1905)
"chiastic (crosswise) Arrangement of Words, "for why he is god and lorde of our
helth, ... chiastic ..."
2. A Treatise on the Theory of Screws by Robert Stanwell Ball (1900)
"If, however, it were possible to determine two chiastic homographies having two
pairs in common, then every homography is chiastic, ..."
3. Some Invariants and Covariants of Ternary Collineations by Henry Bayard Phillips (1907)
"points b{ it follows that each pair of lines intersect on the join of the remaining
pair of points. Such a 4-point and 4-line may be called chiastic. ..."
4. Classical Philology by University of Chicago press, JSTOR (Organization) (1909)
"In other words 846 and 848 show an approximately chiastic balancing of contrasted
ideas; the chiasmus is, however, marred by the position of amicitiam and ..."
5. The Influence of the Second Sophistic on the Style of the Sermons of St by James Marshall Campbell (1922)
"... chiastic Parison Antithesis 905 84 ~' ~ 101 chiastic Antithesis Sentence
Parison chiastic Sentence Parison 13 ' ~B7~ ~~5~~ ' St. Basil's ready skill in ..."
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