Rhet. Obs. [f. ANT- + Gr. ἀναγωγή a leading or bringing up.] (See quot.)
1589. Puttenham, Eng. Poesie (Arb.), 224. Antenagoge, or the Recompencer, seemeth to make amends, for which cause it is called by the originall name in both languages, the Recompencer, as … I must needs say, that my wife is a shrevve, But such a husvvife as I knovv but a fevve.
1706. Phillips, Antanagoge.… In Rhetorick, a Figure; when not being able to answer the Adversary’s Accusation, we return the Charge, by loading him with the same Crimes.
1751. in Chambers, Cycl.; and in mod. Dicts.
