Definition of "chiastic" [chiastic]

• Pertaining to chiasmus. (adjective)

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• "One argument he often cites supporting the notion that a particular biblical book was written by a single author - an author religious people would like to believe was god - is the presence of something called chiastic, or "envelope," structure."
• "Here, the primal "O" or "ah" of subapostrophic interjection seems hidden in the very principle of duration, as hypostasized in the appositional "one God, one law," and then taken up in chiastic echo within the effortless tip-toe alliteration of the chiastic"
• "This obligation is learned from the chiastic structure itself."