synchysis

  1. Noun.  (context, poetics) A complicated, interlocking word-order pattern in early Latin verse, demonstrated by Virgil and his contemporaries.
  2. Noun.  A confused mixture.
  3. Noun.  (rhetoric) Confused arrangement of words in a sentence; .

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