a. [ad. Gr. ἀντιφραστικ-ός, f. as prec.] Of or pertaining to antiphrasis; opposed to the ordinary meaning.
1640. Canterbur. Self-Conv., Postscr. 3. Things are not alwayes correspondent to their names; Etymologies are sometimes antiphrastick.
1683. E. Hooker, Pref. Pordage’s Myst. Div., 18. An Anti-phrastic and Anti-Christian … Age.
