单词 | enallage |
释义 | enallagen. 1. Grammar. The substitution of one grammatical form for another, e.g. of singular for plural, of present for past tense, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > other grammatical categories or concepts > [noun] > substitution of grammatical form enallage1583 1583 W. Fulke Def. Transl. Script. 126 In the participle..is a manifest enallage or change of the gender. 1614 J. Selden Titles of Honor 115 Their Grammarians make it [Elohim] an Enallage of Number..to express excellencie. 1656 J. Owen Wks. (1851) VIII. 403 There may be an enallagy of number, the nation for the nations. 1737 D. Waterland Rev. Doctr. Eucharist (ed. 2) 373 Enallage of tenses, which is frequent in Scripture. 1832 in N. Webster Dict. Eng. Lang. ; and in mod. Dicts. ΚΠ 1736 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum (ed. 2) Enallage, a figure whereby we change or invert the order of the terms in a discourse. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1583 |
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