antiphrasis

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

antĭphrăsis (better written as Gr.), is, f., = ἀντίφρασις,

the use of a word in a sense opposite to its proper meaning; as, lucus , quod minime luceat, Diom. p. 458 P.; cf. Charis. p. 247 P. al.

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