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ng this movement. Also sometimes used of a stanza of modern verse. See the Note under Antistrophe.

An inversion of the natural order of words; as, echoed the hills, for, the hills echoed.

n Greek choruses and dances, the returning of the chorus, exactly answering to a previous strophe or movement from right to left. Hence: The lines of this part of the choral song. It was customary, on some occasions, to dance round the altars whilst they sang the sacred hymns, which consisted of three stanzas or parts;…

addresses, in the second person, some person or thing, absent or present; as, Milton's apostrophe to Light at the beginning of the third book of "Paradise Lost."

See Astrofel. [Obs.]

An ancient mode of writing, in alternate directions, one line from left to right, and the next from right to left (as fields are plowed), as in early Greek and Hittite.

Relating to the boustrophedon mode of writing.

alamitous or disastrous nature; hence, sudden calamity; great misfortune. The strange catastrophe of affairs now at London. Bp. Buret. The most horrible and portentous catastrophe that nature ever yet saw. Woodward.

Same as Anadiplosis. Gibbs.

A figure in which successive clauses end with the same word or affirmation; e. g., "Are they Hebrews so am I. Are they Israelites so am I." 2 Cor. xi. 22.

The act of a patient turning himself.

A metrical composition consisting of a single strophe.

Of or pertaining to an antistrophe.

Pertaining to an apostrophe, grammatical or rhetorical.

To address by apostrophe.

Boustrophedonic.

Any violent catastrophe, involving sudden and extensive changes of the earth's surface.

Of a pertaining to a catastrophe. B. Powell.

See under Ambrosian. Chant royal Etym: [F.], in old French poetry, a poem containing five strophes of eleven lines each, and a concluding stanza. -- each of these six parts ending with a common refrain. -- Gregorian chant. See under Gregorian.

A turning to the opposite side; antistrophe. Congreve.