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

An*tip"a*thize (&?;), v. i. To feel or show antipathy. [R.]

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

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.

An`ti*pep"tone (&?;), n. (Physiol. Chem.) A product of gastric and pancreatic digestion, differing from hemipeptone in not being decomposed by the continued action of pancreatic juice.

An`ti*pe`ri*od"ic (&?;), n. (Med.) A remedy possessing the property of preventing the return of periodic paroxysms, or exacerbations, of disease, as in intermittent fevers.

An`ti*per`i*stal"tic (&?;), a. (Med.) Opposed to, or checking motion; acting upward; -- applied to an inverted action of the intestinal tube.

||An`ti*pe*ris"ta*sis (&?;), n. [Gr. &?;; &?; against + &?; a standing around, fr. &?; 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.

An`ti*per`i*stat"ic (&?;), a. Pertaining to antiperistasis.

An`ti*pet"al*ous (&?;), a. [Pref. anti- + petal.] (Bot.) Standing before a petal, as a stamen.

An`ti*phar"mic (&?;), a. [Pref. anti- + Gr. &?; poison.] (Med.) Antidotal; alexipharmic.

An`ti*phlo*gis"tian (&?;), n. An opposer of the theory of phlogiston.

An`ti*phlo*gis"tic (&?;), a. 1. (Chem.) Opposed to the doctrine of phlogiston.

2. (Med.) Counteracting inflammation.

An`ti*phlo*gis"tic, n. (Med.) Any medicine or diet which tends to check inflammation. Coxe.

An"ti*phon (&?;), n. [LL. antiphona, fr. Gr. &?;. See Anthem.] 1. A musical response; alternate singing or chanting. See Antiphony, and Antiphone.

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

An*tiph"o*nal (&?;), a. Of or pertaining to antiphony, or alternate singing; sung alternately by a divided choir or opposite choirs. Wheatly. -- An*tiph"o*nal*ly, adv.

An*tiph"o*nal, n. A book of antiphons or anthems.

An*tiph"o*na*ry (&?;), n. [LL. 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.

An"ti*phone (&?;), n. (Mus.) The response which one side of the choir makes to the other in a chant; alternate chanting or signing.

An*tiph"o*ner (&?;), n. [F. antiphonaire. See Antiphon.] A book of antiphons. Chaucer.

An`ti*phon"ic (&?;), a. Antiphonal.