Hŷs'te-ron-prōt'e-ron, n.

n. [Gr. ὑστέρος, the latter, following, and πρότερος, before others, sooner.] (Rhet.) (a.) A figure in which the word that should follow comes first; hysterology; as, valet atque vivit, “he is well and lives.” (b.) An inversion of logical order, in which the conclusion is put before the premises, or the thing proved before the evidence.