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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Antistrophe \An*tis"tro*phe\, n. [L., fr Gr ?, fr ? to turn to the opposite side ? against + ? to turn. See {Strophe}.] 1. In Greek choruses and dances, the returning of the chorus, exactly answering to a previous strophe or movement from right to left Hence: The lines of this part of the choral song. It was customary, on some occasions, to dance round the altars whilst they sang the sacred hymns, which consisted of three stanzas or parts the first of which called strophe, was sung in turning from east to west; the other named antistrophe, in returning from west to east; then they stood before the altar, and sang the epode, which was the last part of the song. --Abp. Potter. 2. (Rhet.) a The repetition of words in an inverse order as the master of the servant and the servant of the master. b The retort or turning of an adversary's plea against him From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: antistrophe n : the section of a choral ode answering a previous strophe in classical Greek drama; the second of two metrically corresponding sections in a poem
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