antistrophon
English
editEtymology
editFrom Ancient Greek ἀντίστροφος (antístrophos, “turned towards each other”), from στρέφω (stréphō).
Noun
editantistrophon
- (rhetoric) An argument retorted on an opponent.
- 1642 April, John Milton, An Apology for Smectymnuus; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume I, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 175:
- 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;
Translations
editan argument retorted on an opponent
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “antistrophon”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)