English English Dictionary

English English Dictionary

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Antipathetical (a.)

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

Antipathic (a.)

Belonging to antipathy; opposite; contrary; allopathic.

Antipathies (pl. )

of Antipathy

Antipathist (n.)

One who has an antipathy.

Antipathize (v. i.)

To feel or show antipathy.

Antipathous (a.)

Having a natural contrariety; adverse; antipathetic.

Antipathy (n.)

Contrariety or opposition in feeling; settled aversion or dislike; repugnance; distaste.

Antipathy (n.)

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

Antipeptone (n.)

A product of gastric and pancreatic digestion, differing from hemipeptone in not being decomposed by the continued action of pancreatic juice.

Antiperiodic (n.)

A remedy possessing the property of preventing the return of periodic paroxysms, or exacerbations, of disease, as in intermittent fevers.

Antiperistaltic (a.)

Opposed to, or checking motion; acting upward; -- applied to an inverted action of the intestinal tube.

Antiperistasis (n.)

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 (a.)

Pertaining to antiperistasis.

Antipetalous (a.)

Standing before a petal, as a stamen.

Antipharmic (a.)

Antidotal; alexipharmic.

Antiphlogistian (n.)

An opposer of the theory of phlogiston.

Antiphlogistic (n.)

Any medicine or diet which tends to check inflammation.

Antiphlogistic (a.)

Counteracting inflammation.

Antiphlogistic (a.)

Opposed to the doctrine of phlogiston.

Antiphon (n.)

A musical response; alternate singing or chanting. See Antiphony, and Antiphone.