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Metathesis [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Transposition; a figure by which the letters or syllables of a word are transposed; as pistris for pristis.

2. In medicine, a change or removal of a morbid cause, without expulsion.

Metathesis [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Transposition, as of the letters or syllables of a word; as, pistris for pristis; meagre for meager.

2. A mere change in place of a morbid substance, without removal from the body.

3. The act, process, or result of exchange, substitution, or replacement of atoms and radicals; thus, by metathesis an acid gives up all or part of its hydrogen, takes on an equivalent amount of a metal or base, and forms a salt.