antistrophon

From Ancient Greek ἀντίστροφος (antístrophos, “turned towards each other”), from στρέφω (stréphō).

antistrophon

1. (obsolete, rhetoric) A counterargument as a retort
   • 1642 April, John Milton, An Apology for Smectymnuus; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume I, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 175:

     Now that he may know what it is to be a Childe, and yet to meddle with edg'd tooles, I turn his Antiſtrophon upon his own head;

• antistrophe

• “antistrophon”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.