Antiochian epoch(Chron.), a method of computing time, from the proclamation of liberty granted to the city of Antioch, about the time of the battle of Pharsalia, B.C. 48.

Antiodontalgic
(An`ti*o`don*tal"gic) a. (Med.) Efficacious in curing toothache.n. A remedy for toothache.

Antiorgastic
(An`ti*or*gas"tic) a. [Pref. anti- + Gr. to swell, as with lust.] (Med.) Tending to allay venereal excitement or desire; sedative.

Antipapal
(An`ti*pa"pal) a. Opposed to the pope or to popery. Milton.

Antiparallel
(An`ti*par"al*lel) a. Running in a contrary direction. Hammond.

Antiparallels
(An`ti*par"al*lels) n. pl. (Geom.) Straight lines or planes which make angles in some respect opposite in character to those made by parallel lines or planes.

Antiparalytic
(An`ti*par`a*lyt"ic) a. (Med.) Good against paralysis.n. A medicine for paralysis.

Antiparalytical
(An`ti*par`a*lyt"ic*al) a. Antiparalytic.

Antipathetic
(An`ti*pa*thet"ic An`ti*pa*thet"ic*al) a. Having a natural contrariety, or constitutional aversion, to a thing; characterized by antipathy; — often followed by to. Fuller.

Antipathic
(An`ti*path"ic) a. [NL. antipathicus, Gr. of opposite feelings.] (Med.) Belonging to antipathy; opposite; contrary; allopathic.

Antipathist
(An*tip"a*thist) n. One who has an antipathy. [R.] "Antipathist of light." Coleridge.

Antipathize
(An*tip"a*thize) v. i. To feel or show antipathy. [R.]

Antipathous
(An*tip"a*thous) a. Having a natural contrariety; adverse; antipathetic. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

Antipathy
(An*tip"a*thy) n.; pl. Antipathies [L. antipathia, Gr. against + to suffer. Cf. F. 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.

3. (Metaph.) A contradiction or incompatibility of thought or language; — in the Kantian philosophy, such a contradiction as arises from the attempt to apply to the ideas of the reason, relations or attributes which are appropriate only to the facts or the concepts of experience.

Antiochian
(An`ti*o"chi*an) a.

1. Pertaining to Antiochus, a contemporary with Cicero, and the founder of a sect of philosophers.

2. Of or pertaining to the city of Antioch, in Syria.


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