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ANTISTROPE

Volume 2 · 62 words · 1815 Edition

Grammar, a figure by which two things mutually depending on one another, are reciprocally converted; as, the servant of the master, the master of the servant.

Antistrope, among lyric poets, that part of a song and dance in use among the ancients, which was performed before the altar, in returning from west to east; in opposition to strophe. See Strophe and Ode.