ABSTRACT
ANTITHESIS [Those parts of the definitions taken over by Blount are in italics] Bolton: A contrary position, or an opposition. GR [EEK]. Holyoke 1640: A Rhetoricall exornation, when contraries are opposed to contraries. Cockeram 1642: Contrarieties of things placed one against another; as spokes in a
as spokes in a wheele; a contrary Position or opposition.
