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Webster 1913 Edition


Antanagoge

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Antˊan-a-go′ge

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Noun.
[Pref.
anti-
+
anagoge
.]
(Rhet.)
A figure which consists in answering the charge of an adversary, by a counter charge.

Webster 1828 Edition


Antanagoge

ANTANAGO'GE

,
Noun.
antanago'gy. [Gr. against, and a taking up.]
In rhetoric, a figure which consists in replying to an adversary, by way of recrimination; as, when the accusation of one party is unanswerable, the accused person charges him with the same or other crime.