Gram. Obs. [med.L., a. Gr. ἀντίπτωσις, f. ἀντί in exchange + πτῶσις falling, case.] The use of one case for another.
1657. J. Smith, Myst. Rhet., 192. Antiptosis … the putting of one case for another.
1659. Pearson, Creed (1839), 186. Ὀ κύριός μου καὶ ὀ Θεός μου…. In these words there is … an antiptosis, the nominative case used for the vocative.
1751. in Chambers.
