Some others, again, have obtained their denominations by way of antiphrasis, or contrariety; as.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference

In a similar way, by antiphrasis, the name of coccyx, a cuckoo, was given to the poor husband into whose nest a stranger intruded.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference

Paralipsis, also known as praeteritio, preterition, cataphasis, antiphrasis, or parasiopesis, is a rhetorical figure of speech wherein the speaker or writer invokes a subject by denying that it should be invoked.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama says George Bush is "a good guy," "a good man," and "a good person."] Reference

It cannot be alleged that there is an antiphrasis in the word of benediction, as if it were used in a sense contrary to what is usual; because it plainly appears to be applied by Moses in a good, and not an evil sense.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2] Reference

Foucault's final words on the late-eighteenth-century transformation of the treatment of mental illness describe it as "that gigantic moral imprisonment which we are in the habit of calling, doubtless by antiphrasis, the liberation of the insane by Pinel and Tuke" (p. 278).    From Wordnik.com.  [An Exchange with Michel Foucault] Reference

I believe that war is in Latin called bellum, not by antiphrasis, as some patchers of old rusty Latin would have us to think, because in war there is little beauty to be seen, but absolutely and simply; for that in war appeareth all that is good and graceful, and that by the wars is purged out all manner of wickedness and deformity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference

Latin called bellum, not by antiphrasis, as some patchers of old rusty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3] Reference

Cornelius Castoriadis once said that the New Philosophers had been named by an act of double antiphrasis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inside Higher Ed] Reference

The friend who presented me with him had given him, perhaps by antiphrasis, the startling name of Pelléas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Friend the Dog] Reference

First, because the vague aggregate of social milieus, institutions, and individualized bubbles that is called, with a touch of antiphrasis, "society," has no consistency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anarchist news dot org - Comments] Reference

Some others, again, have obtained their denominations by way of antiphrasis, or contrariety; as Absinth, because it is contrary to Psinthos, for it is bitter to the taste in drinking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3] Reference

The seraglio of the great King recalled to mind that of Solomon, whilst his brother, enslaved by effeminacy and debauchery, had only to hold up his finger and the most important personages of the state were suitably provided with mistresses to such an extent that at length it became necessary to transfer occasionally to foreign courts those attractive creatures who, by antiphrasis doubtless, were always called "maids of honour.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Political Women, Vol. 2 (of 2)] Reference

Down with antiphrasis, ‘specially from you sciencey types.    From Wordnik.com.  [As others see them - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

“One evening I went in to see this man who had turned himself to gold; the usurer, whom his victims (his clients, as he styled them) were wont to call Daddy Gobseck, perhaps ironically, perhaps by way of antiphrasis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gobseck] Reference

But it is not by the tone of voice that we make an antiphrasis to indicate the opposite of what the words convey; but either the words in which it is expressed are used in the opposite of their etymological sense, as a grove is called lucus from its want of light; or it is customary to use a certain form of expression, although it puts yes for no by a law of contraries, as when we ask in a place for what is not there, and get the answer.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Christian Doctrine, in Four Books] Reference

"One evening I went in to see this man who had turned himself to gold; the usurer, whom his victims (his clients, as he styled them) were wont to call Daddy Gobseck, perhaps ironically, perhaps by way of antiphrasis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gobseck] Reference