An'ti-me-tăb'o-le, n.

n. [Lat. antimetabole, Gr. ἀντιμεταβολή, change, from μεταβάλλειν, to transpose, to change, from μετά, reversely, and βάλλειν, to throw.] (Rhet.) A setting of two things in opposition to each other; as, “An honorable action may be attended with labor, but the labor is soon past, and the honor is immortal.”