Antistrophon
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A counterargument as a retort obsolete, rhetoric
"Now that he may know what it is to be a Childe, and yet to meddle with edg'd tooles, I turn his Antiſtrophon upon his own head;"
Example
More examples"Now that he may know what it is to be a Childe, and yet to meddle with edg'd tooles, I turn his Antiſtrophon upon his own head;"
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἀντίστροφος (antístrophos, “turned towards each other”), from στρέφω (stréphō).
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