Antiphony, or Antiphon

[From Gr. anti, against, and phone, voice, sound.] ( Mus.) Opposition or alternation in sound; the answer of one choir to another, when an anthem or psalm is sung alternately by two choirs; alternate singing. Antiphrasis, n . [Gr. from anti , and phrazo , to speak.] (Rhet.) The use of words in a sense opposite to their proper meaning, or the affirmation of a thing by denying it to be the contrary; as, He is no fool .