Gram. Pl. -a, (-ons). [a. L., a. Gr. ἀνακόλουθ-ον wanting sequence, f. ἀν priv. + ἀκόλουθ-ος following, f. ἀ copul. + κέλευθ-ος a road, or march.] An instance of anacoluthia, a phrase or series of words in which it appears.
[Not in Johnson 1755, Craig 1847.]
1706. Phillips, Anacolython, a Rhetorical Figure, when a Word that is to answer another is not express’d.
1753. Chambers, Cycl. Supp., Anacoluthon among antient grammarians denotes an incoherence, or a construction which does not hang together.
1860. Jowett, Ess. & Rev. (ed. 2), 397. The verbal oppositions and anacolutha of St. Paul.
1876. Sweet, Anglo-Sax. Reader, i. 1. The style is of the rudest character … abrupt, disconnected, obscure and full of anacoluthons.
