| STROPHES | • strophes n. Plural of strophe. • STROPHE n. (Greek) a group of lines forming a section of a lyric poem. |
| TROPHESY | • trophesy n. Malnourishment due to a disorder of the nervous system. • TROPHESY n. a state of diseased nutrition due to disorder of the trophic action of the nerves. |
| TROPHESIAL | • trophesial adj. Pertaining to regulation of nourishment by the nervous system. • TROPHESIAL adj. relating to trophesy, a state of diseased nutrition due to disorder of the trophic action of the nerves. |
| TROPHESIES | • trophesies n. Plural of trophesy. • TROPHESY n. a state of diseased nutrition due to disorder of the trophic action of the nerves. |
| ANASTROPHES | • anastrophes n. Plural of anastrophe. • ANASTROPHE n. an inversion of the usual syntactical order of words for rhetorical effect e.g. 'To market went she'. |
| APOSTROPHES | • apostrophes n. Plural of apostrophe. • APOSTROPHE n. the addressing of a personified thing rhetorically. |
| EPISTROPHES | • epistrophes n. Plural of epistrophe. • EPISTROPHE n. the ending of successive clauses with the same word e.g. 'government of the people, by the people, for the people'. |
| ANTISTROPHES | • antistrophes n. Plural of antistrophe. • ANTISTROPHE n. the repetition of words in reverse order. |
| CATASTROPHES | • catastrophes n. Plural of catastrophe. • catastrophes n. Plural of catastrophë. • CATASTROPHE n. the final event of the dramatic action esp. of a tragedy. |
| HYPOSTROPHES | • hypostrophes n. Plural of hypostrophe. • HYPOSTROPHE n. a return to the primary argument after digression. |
| MONOSTROPHES | • monostrophes n. Plural of monostrophe. • MONOSTROPHE n. a poem in which all the stanzas or strophes are written in the same metre. |
| ECOCATASTROPHES | • ecocatastrophes n. Plural of ecocatastrophe. • ECOCATASTROPHE n. a major destructive upset in the balance of nature esp. when caused by the action of humans. |