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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as chiasmal.

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  • adjective of or relating to a chiasm

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Examples

  • It's partly the chiasmic reveral: miss/shrinking, weeping/want.

    Another Millay Poem Theodora Goss 2010

  • It's partly the chiasmic reveral: miss/shrinking, weeping/want.

    Archive 2010-07-01 Theodora Goss 2010

  • We could say that the chiasmus can be filled in with intuitive or symbolic content — literal or figurative seeing — while the chiasmic form channels us toward understanding ( "seeing" in a metaphoric sense), that "dark, bright, bright, dark," is like "most, I, eyes, best."

    Seeing Is Reading 2005

  • In its course, Swann's essay teaches us to recognize the aesthetic as the medium through which we can read the fluid, chiasmic relationship between what is living and what is dead in the life-work and death-work of Percy Bysshe Shelley.

    Introduction: 'The Power is There': Romanticism as Aesthetic Insistence 2005

  • But, on the other hand, as a more chiasmic ontology, it works holistically.

    Body is Vibration Tusar N Mohapatra 2005

  • They kick in the door, pee in the fire and begin their little paean to nihilism done here in a nice, visually chiasmic, artsy kinda way:

    THE NEWS BLOG 2005

  • But, on the other hand, as a more chiasmic ontology, it works holistically.

    Archive 2005-10-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2005

  • Brain tumors can compress surrounding axons and thus produce prolonged interwave periods; gliomas, acoustic neuromas, and chiasmic lesions can be identified by such localized or lateralized evoked potential abnormalities.

    The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993

  • But as for Si'Wren and her Invisible God, she could only feel a deep, chiasmic remorse that there was no one to ask, and she knew of no other living true believer in the whole wide world now, besides herself, and the Patriarch Noah, whom she knew not.

    Si'Wren of the Patriarchs Roland Jon Cheney

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