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adj. - Of or related to syntactic inconsistencies or incoherence within a sentence; especially, the shift from one construction (left incomplete) to another, sometimes for rhetorical effect

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  • Nor did he follow strictly the laws of poetic rhythm in the use of the Kînah, or elegiac, verse, which had, moreover, an anacoluthic measure of its own.
  • Aspirates troubled him, so that for the most part he cast them away, and the syntax of his periods was often anacoluthic; but these matters were of no moment.
  • I suppose that is English, but it is certainly anacoluthic, obscure, and viciously punctuated (after the British style, which can be destructive to both sense and grammar).
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