'Hysterology' definitions:

Definition of 'Hysterology'

From: GCIDE

Hysterology \Hys`ter*ol"o*gy\, n. [Gr. ?; ? the latter + ? discourse: cf. F. hyst['e]rologie.] (Rhet.) A figure by which the ordinary course of thought is inverted in expression, and the last put first; -- called also hysteron proteron. [1913 Webster]