hyper thesis

(hi-pér’the-sis), n. [ ai, & pa ing over, a transposition (also exce , the superlative degree), ¢ imepribévar, put over, set over, put off (in mid. exceed), Géorc, a putting down: see thesis.] 1. In ane. pros., interchange of quantity in two succe ive places of a logacdic series, so that in one of two lines metrically corresponding, as in strophe and antistrophe, along is apparently transferred to a position before a short, which it would normally sueceed, or a short transferred so as to exchange places with a preceding long. See poly schema tie.— 2, In philol., a transfer or ‘‘attraction” of a letter from the syllable to which it originally belonged to another syllable immediately preceding or following it; orthographic transposition, or metathesis: thus, in Greek, pédaw a is used for *yeAavia.—8. In the Gr. Ch., a fast in addition to those regularly observed.