anticategoria  anticategoria
 an'-ti-cat-e-gor'-i-a Gk. "counter charge, accusing in turn"
tu quoque ("you, too"), accusatio adversa, translatio in adversarium

A retort in which one turns the very accusation made by one's adversary back against him.
 
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  Sources: Bullinger 966


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