antiphrasisn.

/ænˈtɪfrəsɪs/

Etymology: Latin, < Greek ἀντίϕρασις, < ἀντιϕράζ-ειν to express by the opposite.

Rhetoric.

1. A figure of speech by which words are used in a sense opposite to their proper meaning.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of meaning > [noun] > use of meaning opposite of literal

antiphrasis1533

1533 T. More Debellacyon Salem & Bizance i. v. f. xxix, The fygure of ironye or antiphrasys.

1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xviii. 159 Antiphrasis, or the Broad floute..as..to [say to] a Negro..in good sooth ye are a faire one.

1650 O. Cromwell Lett. & Speeches (Carlyle) (1857) ii. 110 You are pastors, but it is by an antiphrasis, a minime pascendo.

1739 tr. C. Rollin Anc. Hist. (ed. 2) VIII. 15 He was, by antiphrasis, sirnamed Philopator.

1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) iv. 33 It was a bold antiphrasis that gave such a vernal title [Greenland] to this birth-place of icebergs.

2. per antiphrasin.

ΚΠ

1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) vii. lix. sig. rvj^v/1, A postume..hyghte Herisipila, that is holy fyre per Antifrasim, that is by contrary manere spekynge.

1670 S. Wilson Lassels's Voy. Italy i. 153 An Academy of Wits, called Gli Otiosi, or Idle~men,..per antiphrasin, because they are not idle.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online November 2010).

单词	antiphrasis
释义	antiphrasisn. /ænˈtɪfrəsɪs/ Etymology: Latin, < Greek ἀντίϕρασις, < ἀντιϕράζ-ειν to express by the opposite. Rhetoric. 1. A figure of speech by which words are used in a sense opposite to their proper meaning. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of meaning > [noun] > use of meaning opposite of literal antiphrasis1533 1533 T. More Debellacyon Salem & Bizance i. v. f. xxix, The fygure of ironye or antiphrasys. 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xviii. 159 Antiphrasis, or the Broad floute..as..to [say to] a Negro..in good sooth ye are a faire one. 1650 O. Cromwell Lett. & Speeches (Carlyle) (1857) ii. 110 You are pastors, but it is by an antiphrasis, a minime pascendo. 1739 tr. C. Rollin Anc. Hist. (ed. 2) VIII. 15 He was, by antiphrasis, sirnamed Philopator. 1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) iv. 33 It was a bold antiphrasis that gave such a vernal title [Greenland] to this birth-place of icebergs. 2. per antiphrasin. ΚΠ 1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) vii. lix. sig. rvj^v/1, A postume..hyghte Herisipila, that is holy fyre per Antifrasim, that is by contrary manere spekynge. 1670 S. Wilson Lassels's Voy. Italy i. 153 An Academy of Wits, called Gli Otiosi, or Idle~men,..per antiphrasin, because they are not idle. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online November 2010). < n.1495
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