antiphrastice

antiphrastice , by way of contradiction. sororum triplicium [Parcarum] ‥ que sumptis a parcendi vocabulo suis nominibus ~e ponuntur P. Blois Ep. 172. 467; mundus antifrastice ‘mundus’ nuncupatur; / nam fetet horrifice Peckham Def. Mend. 85.

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