Usually means: Polite mockery using opponent's words.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (asteismus)

noun:  (rhetoric) Witty dialog or response.
noun:  (rhetoric) In dialog, a retort based on a punning use of another speaker's word or metaphor.

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