单词 | peritrope |
释义 | peritropen. rare before late 20th cent. A revolution, a circuit; a thing with a circular nature; = peristrophe n. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > sudden or complete change > [noun] leapc1000 lope14.. revolution?a1439 reverse?1492 metamorphosis1548 transformation1581 earthquake1592 upside down1593 metamorphose1608 sea-changea1616 peritropea1656 transilience1657 transiliency1661 saltus1665 catastrophe1696 peristrophe1716 transiliency1769 upheaving1821 upset1822 saltation1844 shake1847 upheaval1850 cataclysm1861 shake-out1939 virage1989 a1656 J. Ussher Ann. World (1658) vi. 600 This Peritrope is worth the observation, That on the same day of the same moneth, that the Temple should happen to be taken, and that after 543 years by Pompey. 1976 Philos. Rev. 85 48 Here peritrope is used to denominate a kind or type of argument, of which Protagoras' self-refutation is just one specimen. 1994 Rhetoric Rev. 13 84 Gorgias did not seriously believe that nothing exists, for to so assert would leave him vulnerable to the peritrope of turning the tables. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1656 |
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