antanagoge

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  1. In rhetoric, a figure which consists in replying to an adversary by recrimination, as when, the accusation made by one party being unanswerable, the accused person charges his accuser with the same or some other crime. Sometimes shortened to antagoge.

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  1. New Latin, from Greek ἀντ- for ἀντί, against, + ἀναγωψή, a taking up: see anagoge.
 

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