antistrophen.
1. The returning movement, from left to right, in Greek choruses and dances, answering to the previous movement of the strophe from right to left; hence, the lines of choral song recited during this movement; and generally, any choral response.
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stichomythia1861
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a1620 M. Fotherby Atheomastix (1622) ii. xii. §5. 345 As euery Psalme beginneth with an Allelu-iah..by Stropha: so doth it likewise end, with an Allelu-iah..by Antistropha.
1671 Milton Samson Agonistes Pref. 5 Strophe, Antistrophe or Epod..were a kind of Stanza's fram'd only for the Music, then us'd with the Chorus that sung.
1807 J. Robinson Archæol. Græca iii. iv. 217 The sacred hymns, consisting of three stanzas..the first of which, called strophe, was sung in turning from east to west; the second, called antistrophe, in returning from west to east.
2. An inverse relation or correspondence.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > contrariety or contrast > [noun]
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1605 Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Kk1v, The latter Braunch..hath the same relation or Antistrophe, that the former hath. View more context for this quotation
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Antistrophe, An Antistrophe; or alternall conversion of two things, which bee somewhat alike.
1842 De Quincey in Blackwood's Mag. 51 12 An inverse correspondency with the Nile (north and south, therefore, as the antistrophe to south and north).
3. Rhetoric and Grammar.
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a. The repetition of words in inverse order.
b. The figure of retort, or turning an opponent's plea against him.
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1630 R. Norton tr. W. Camden Hist. Princesse Elizabeth i. 99 The renewing of the Contract is a flat Antistrophe, and may truely be retorted vpon the French.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Antistrophe, a Figure in Grammar, whereby two Terms or Things mutually dependent one on another, are reciprocally converted... As, if one should say, the Master of the Servant, and the Servant of the Master.
4. Crystallogr. (See quot., and cf. metastrophe n. 2.)
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1895 N. Story-Maskelyne Crystallogr. v. §80. 99 A solid figure..is [symmetrical] to a plane of symmetry when corresponding points equidistant from the plane would lie on any line drawn perpendicularly to the plane. Where the solid figure presents symmetry to only a single plane (and not to a centre also) the corresponding portions of its surface..are to each other as either would be to its own image if seen reflected by the plane of symmetry as by a mirror. Def.—Such a correspondence of form will be termed antistrophe, and such figures will be said to be antistrophic to each other.
1899 W. J. Lewis Treat. Crystallogr. 21.
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