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ANTIMETABOLO

Volume 3 · 40 words · 1842 Edition

in Rhetoric, a figure which sets Antimeta-bole two things in opposition to each other. The word is Greek, compounded of anti, against, and μεταβολή from μεταβάλλω, I shift or transfer, i.e. shifting, or setting two things over against each other.