A Dictionary of science, literature, and art [electronic resource]: comprising the history, description, and scientific principles of every branch of human knowledge; with the derivation and definition of all the terms in general use (1844)
Brande, William Thomas, 1788-1866, Cauvin, Joseph · New York : Harper & brothers · leaf 593
Rhetoric, a species of inversion, in which notonly the natural or customary succession of words is Changed,but the sense presents a species of transposition, in whichpredicates are transferred from their proper subject to an-other. Such examples as gladium vagina vacuum, thesword empty of the… … HYPANTHODIUM. sense could not be admitted in modern language, similarlocutions are not wholly wanting among ourselves. HYPANTHODIL Mi A term given by Link tp that formof inflorescence where the receptacle is fleshy and coveredwith minute tlowers, but not enclosed within an involucruiu ;as in…
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