adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In an antiphrastic manner.

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1633.  Bp. Morton, Disch. 5 Imputations, 206 (T.). In his (Antiphrastically so called) Sober Reckoning.

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1657.  G. Starkey, Helmont’s Vind., 249. Medicines … which deserve that name, and are not Ironically, or Antiphrastically named so.

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1731.  Bailey, Antiphrastically, by way of Antiphrasis.

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1818.  in Todd.

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