Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Enantiomorphous.
  • Relating to antistrophe.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to an antistrophe.

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  • adjective Of or pertaining to an antistrophe.

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  • adjective of or relating to an antistrophe

Etymologies

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Ancient Greek

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Examples

  • I don't care about antistrophic filtering and texture settings etc etc.. just make it look good.

    Gaming gripes: Pet peeves aplenty | Sync Blog 2007

  • The result is much like the preludes that Democritus of Chios jeered at Melanippides for writing instead of antistrophic stanzas —

    Rhetoric Aristotle 2002

  • Antiphonal and antistrophic structure go easily together: see Deborah's Song, page 152.

    Select Masterpieces of Biblical Literature Richard Green Moulton 1886

  • The term strophe has come to be used also for verse paragraphs where there is no antistrophic arrangement.

    Select Masterpieces of Biblical Literature Richard Green Moulton 1886

  • /This is one of the most elaborate sonnets: its metrical scheme combines antistrophic and stanza structure

    Select Masterpieces of Biblical Literature Richard Green Moulton 1886

  • The metrical scheme is an illustration of 'duplication' applied to antistrophic structure: a quatrain question (strophe 1) has a couplet answer (strophe 2); then the quatrain is duplicated into an octet

    Select Masterpieces of Biblical Literature Richard Green Moulton 1886

  • /The metrical scheme of this sonnet is an example of 'antistrophic inversion': that is, two strophes followed by their antistrophes, but the antistrophe to the second strophe precedes the antistrophe to the first.

    Select Masterpieces of Biblical Literature Richard Green Moulton 1886

  • The structural form of this ode is antistrophic inversion (7, 6; 6, 7), like that of No./iv/of the

    Select Masterpieces of Biblical Literature Richard Green Moulton 1886

  • Why had they not thought of this long ago? and thereupon they reverted to antistrophic laudation of Rhoda Nunn.

    The Odd Women George Gissing 1880

  • At that moment the voice of the singers, a "voice of joy and health," concentrated itself with solemn antistrophic movement, into an evening, or "candle" hymn.

    Marius the Epicurean — Volume 2 Walter Pater 1866

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