antiˈphrastically, adv.
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In an antiphrastic manner.
1633 Bp. Morton Discharge 206 (T.) In his (antiphrastically so called) Sober Reckoning. 1657 G. Starkey Helmont's Vind. 249 Medicines..which deserve that name, and are not Ironically, or Antiphrastically named so. 1731 Bailey, Antiphrastically, by way of Antiphrasis. 1818 in Todd. |