rare. [f. Gr. ἀνά up + τόπ-ος a place + -ISM.] A putting of a thing out of its proper place, a faulty arrangement.
1812. Coleridge, Rem., I. 317. In arranging which [books] the puzzled librarian must commit an anachronism in order to avoid an anatopism.
1850. De Quincey, Wks., XVI. 72. Geographical blunders, or what might be called anatopisms.
