Antiparalytic adjective (Medicine) Good against paralysis. -- noun A medicine for paralysis.

Antiparalytical adjective Antiparalytic.

Antipasch noun [ Prefix anti- + pasch .] (Eccl.) The Sunday after Easter; Low Sunday.

Antipathetic, Antipathetical adjective Having a natural contrariety, or constitutional aversion, to a thing; characterized by antipathy; -- often followed by to . Fuller.

Antipathic adjective [ New Latin antipathicus , Greek ... of opposite feelings.] (Medicine) Belonging to antipathy; opposite; contrary; allopathic.

Antipathist noun One who has an antipathy. [ R.] " Antipathist of light." Coleridge.

Antipathize intransitive verb To feel or show antipathy. [ R.]

Antipathous adjective Having a natural contrariety; adverse; antipathetic. [ Obsolete] Beau. & Fl.

Antipathy noun ; plural Antipathies [ Latin antipathia , Greek ...; ... against + ... to suffer. Confer French antipathie . See Pathos .]
1. Contrariety or opposition in feeling; settled aversion or dislike; repugnance; distaste.

Inveterate antipathies against particular nations, and passionate attachments to others, are to be avoided.
Washington.

2. Natural contrariety; incompatibility; repugnancy of qualities; as, oil and water have antipathy .

A habit is generated of thinking that a natural antipathy exists between hope and reason.
I. Taylor.

» Antipathy is opposed to sympathy . It is followed by to , against , or between ; also sometimes by for .

Syn. -- Hatred; aversion; dislike; disgust; distaste; enmity; ill will; repugnance; contrariety; opposition. See Dislike .

Antipeptone noun (Physiol. Chem.) A product of gastric and pancreatic digestion, differing from hemipeptone in not being decomposed by the continued action of pancreatic juice.

Antiperiodic noun (Medicine) A remedy possessing the property of preventing the return of periodic paroxysms, or exacerbations, of disease, as in intermittent fevers.

Antiperistaltic adjective (Medicine) Opposed to, or checking motion; acting upward; -- applied to an inverted action of the intestinal tube.

Antiperistasis noun [ Greek ...; ... against + ... a standing around, from ... to stand around; ... around + ... to stand.] Opposition by which the quality opposed asquires strength; resistance or reaction roused by opposition or by the action of an opposite principle or quality.

Antiperistatic adjective Pertaining to antiperistasis.

Antipetalous adjective [ Prefix anti- + petal .] (Botany) Standing before a petal, as a stamen.

Antipharmic adjective [ Prefix anti- + Greek ... poison.] (Medicine) Antidotal; alexipharmic.

Antiphlogistian noun An opposer of the theory of phlogiston.

Antiphlogistic adjective
1. (Chemistry) Opposed to the doctrine of phlogiston.

2. (Medicine) Counteracting inflammation.

Antiphlogistic noun (Medicine) Any medicine or diet which tends to check inflammation. Coxe.

Antiphon noun [ Late Latin antiphona , from Greek .... See Anthem .]
1. A musical response; alternate singing or chanting. See Antiphony , and Antiphone .

2. A verse said before and after the psalms. Shipley.

Antiphonal adjective Of or pertaining to antiphony, or alternate singing; sung alternately by a divided choir or opposite choirs. Wheatly. -- An*tiph"o*nal*ly , adverb

Antiphonal noun A book of antiphons or anthems.

Antiphonary noun [ Late Latin antiphonarium . See Antiphoner .] A book containing a collection of antiphons; the book in which the antiphons of the breviary, with their musical notes, are contained.

Antiphone noun (Mus.) The response which one side of the choir makes to the other in a chant; alternate chanting or signing.

Antiphoner noun [ French antiphonaire . See Antiphon .] A book of antiphons. Chaucer.

Antiphonic adjective Antiphonal.

Antiphony noun ; plural Antiphonies [ See Antiphon .]
1. A musical response; also, antiphonal chanting or signing.

2. An anthem or psalm sung alternately by a choir or congregation divided into two parts. Also figuratively.

O! never more for me shall winds intone,
With all your tops, a vast antiphony .
R. Browning.

Antiphrasis noun [ Latin , from Greek ..., from ... to express by antithesis or negation.] (Rhet.) The use of words in a sense opposite to their proper meaning; as when a court of justice is called a court of vengeance .

Antiphrastic, Antiphrastical adjective [ Greek ....] Pertaining to antiphrasis. -- An`ti*phras"tic*al*ly , adverb

Antiphthisic adjective (Medicine) Relieving or curing phthisis, or consumption. -- noun A medicine for phthisis.

Antiphysical adjective [ Prefix anti- + physical .] Contrary to nature; unnatural.

Antiplastic adjective
1. Diminishing plasticity.

2. (Medicine) Preventing or checking the process of healing, or granulation.

Antipodagric adjective (Medicine) Good against gout. -- noun A medicine for gout.

Antipodal adjective
1. Pertaining to the antipodes; situated on the opposite side of the globe.

2. Diametrically opposite. "His antipodal shadow." Lowell.

Antipode noun One of the antipodes; anything exactly opposite.

In tale or history your beggar is ever the just antipode to your king.
Lamb.

» The singular, antipode , is exceptional in formation, but has been used by good writers. Its regular English plural would be ăn"tĭ*pōdes , the last syllable rhyming with abodes , and this pronunciation is sometimes heard. The plural form (originally a Latin word without a singular) is in common use, and is pronounced, after the English method of Latin, ăn*tĭp"o*dēz .

Antipodean adjective Pertaining to the antipodes, or the opposite side of the world; antipodal.

Antipodes noun [ Latin plural, from Greek ... with the feet opposite, plural ... ...; ... against + ..., ..., foot.]
1. Those who live on the side of the globe diametrically opposite.

2. The country of those who live on the opposite side of the globe. Latham.

3. Anything exactly opposite or contrary.

Can there be a greater contrariety unto Christ's judgment, a more perfect antipodes to all that hath hitherto been gospel?
Hammond.

Antipole noun The opposite pole; anything diametrically opposed. Geo. Eliot.

Antipope noun One who is elected, or claims to be, pope in opposition to the pope canonically chosen; esp. applied to those popes who resided at Avignon during the Great Schism.

Antipsoric adjective (Medicine) Of use in curing the itch. -- noun An antipsoric remedy.

Antiptosis noun [ Latin , from Greek ...; ... against + ... a falling, a case, ... to fall.] (Gram.) The putting of one case for another.

Antiputrefactive, Antiputrescent adjective Counteracting, or preserving from, putrefaction; antiseptic.

Antipyic adjective [ Prefix anti- + Greek ..., ..., pus.] (Medicine) Checking or preventing suppuration. -- noun An antipyic medicine.

Antipyresis noun [ New Latin , from Greek ... against + ... to be feverish, from ... fire.] (Medicine) The condition or state of being free from fever.

Antipyretic adjective (Medicine) Efficacious in preventing or allaying fever. -- noun A febrifuge.

Antipyrine noun (Medicine) An artificial alkaloid, believed to be efficient in abating fever.

Antipyrotic adjective (Medicine) Good against burns or pyrosis. -- noun Anything of use in preventing or healing burns or pyrosis.

Antiquarian adjective [ See Antiquary ]. Pertaining to antiquaries, or to antiquity; as, antiquarian literature.

Antiquarian noun
1. An antiquary.

2. A drawing paper of large size. See under Paper , noun