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497. ( Nares.) "These are the pretty responsories, these are the dear antiphonies, that so bewitched of late our prelates and their chaplains, with the goodly echo they made." Milton : Areop. "Then came the epistle, prayers, antiphonies , and a benediction." -Macaulay: His . Eng ., chap. xiv. when the anti phonics are chanted, one party singing, with fury and gnashing of teeth." - De Quincey: Works (ed. 1863), vol. ii., Note , pp. 180-1. 3. The words given out to be sung by alternate choirs. this [alternate psalmody for its division into two parts, and alternate answers, was commonly called antiphony."-Bingham: Christian Antiquities (ed. 1855), vol. v.. v., p. 13. 4. A composition made of several verses taken from different psalms, the expre ions of sentiment in which are appropriate to the occasion for which the antiphony is prepared. 247 ăn-tiph-ra-sis, s . [In Ger. & Fr. anti phrase; Sp. anti fras is ; Port. antifrase , anti phrasis; Gr. ἀντίφρασις ( antiphrasis ), from ἀντίφράζω ( antiphrazo ) = to expre by antithesis or negation: ἀντί ( anti ) = against, and φράζω (phrazō) = to intimate.] Rhet. & Gram. The use of words in a sense contrary to their ordinary one. In Greek the change was of words with an evil sense into those with a good meaning, but in English it may also be an exchange of good for bad. "You now find no cause to repent that you never dipt your hands in the bloody high courts of justice, so called only by antiphrasis . "-South.