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ˈcounter-ˌturn
[In senses 1 and 2 formed to render Gr. ἀντιστροϕή; in senses 3 and 4 f. counter- 6.]
†1. = antistrophe 1. Obs.
a1637B. Jonson Underwoods lxxxvii. Pindaric Ode, The Strophe, or Turn..The Antistrophe, or Counter-turn.
†2. Prosody. Used by Puttenham for the continued reptition of the same word at the end of successive clauses; = L. conversio. Obs.
1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie iii. xix. (Arb.) 209 The Greekes call this figure Antistrophe, the Latines, conuersio, I following the originall call him the counter-turne, because he turnes counter in the middest of euery meetre.
3. A turn in the contrary direction.
1744E. Haywood Female Spect. (1748) II. 101 Some turns and counter-turns in politics. 1805Wordsw. Prelude xii. 148 Amid the turns and counterturns, the strife And various trials of our complex being.
4. In a dramatic composition, an unexpected turn or development of the plot at the climax.
1651Davenant Gondibert Pref., The fourth [Act]..gives..a counterturn to that main design which chang'd in the third. 1668Dryden Dram. Poesy in Arb. Garner III. 520 The Catastasis or Counter-turn..embroils the action in new difficulties. |