Webster's 1828 Dictionary
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METATH'ESIS, noun [Gr. over, and to set.]
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.
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