Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In rhetoric, the turning of an argument against the one who advanced it.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Rhet.) An argument retorted on an opponent.
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- noun rhetoric An
argument retorted on anopponent .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek turned opposite ways.
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Examples
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But although some of the Rabbies think it is here put as an affirmative, yet I take it in its general sense, as though it were said that she is a kind of counterpart, (antistoikon, or antistrophon; [140]) for the woman is said to be opposite to or over against the man, because she responds to him.
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996
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