<blockquote>It not your voice broken? . . . and every part about you blasted with <b>antiquity</b>? <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>
<p><b>3.</b> <def>Ancient times; former ages; times long since past; <as>as, Cicero was an eloquent orator of <ex>antiquity</ex></as>.</def>
<p><b>4.</b> <def>The ancients; the people of ancient times.</def>
<blockquote>That such pillars were raised by Seth all <b>antiquity</b> has <?/vowed. <i>Sir W. Raleigh.</i></blockquote>
<p><b>5.</b> <def>An old gentleman.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>
<blockquote>You are a shrewd <b>antiquity</b>, neighbor Clench. <i>B. Jonson.</i></blockquote>
<p><b>6.</b> <def>A relic or monument of ancient times; <as>as, a coin, a statue, etc.</as> ; an ancient institution. <note>[In this sense, usually in the plural.]</note></def> "Heathen <i>antiquities</i>."
<i>Bacon.</i>
<h1>Antirachitic</h1> <Xpage=66>
<hw>An`ti*ra*chit"ic</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>Good against the rickets.</def>
<h1>Antirenter</h1> <Xpage=66>
<hw>An`ti*rent"er</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One opposed to the payment of rent; esp. one of those who in 1840-47 resisted the collection of rents claimed by the patroons from the settlers on certain manorial lands in the State of New York.</def> -- <wordforms><wf>An`ti*rent"ism</wf> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt></wordforms>
<h1>Antisabbatarian</h1> <Xpage=66>
<hw>An`ti*sab`ba*ta"ri*an</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Eccl.)</fld> <def>One of a sect which opposes the observance of the Christian Sabbath.</def>
<h1>Antisacerdotal</h1> <Xpage=66>
<hw>An`ti*sac`er*do"tal</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Hostile to priests or the priesthood.</def>
<i>Waterland.</i>
<h1>Antiscians, Antiscii</h1> <Xpage=66>
<hw><hw>An*tis"cians</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <hw>An*tis"ci*i</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>,<hw> <tt>n. pl.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>antiscii</ets>, Gr. <?/, pl.; <?/ against + <?/ shadow.]</ety> <def>The inhabitants of the earth, living on different sides of the equator, whose shadows at noon are cast in opposite directions.</def>
<blockquote>The inhabitants of the north and south temperate zones are always <b>Antiscians</b>. <i>Brande & C.</i></blockquote>
<h1>Antiscoletic, Antiscolic</h1> <Xpage=66>
<hw><hw>An`ti*sco*let"ic</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <hw>An`ti*scol"ic</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>,<hw> <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Pref. <ets>anti-</ets> + Gr. <?/ a worm.]</ety> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>Anthelmintic.</def>
<h1>Antiscorbutic</h1> <Xpage=66>
<hw>An`ti*scor*bu"tic</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>Counteracting scurvy.</def> -- <def2><tt>n.</tt> <def> A remedy for scurvy.</def></def2>
<h1>Antiscorbutical</h1> <Xpage=66>
<hw>An`ti*scor*bu"tic*al</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>Antiscorbutic.</def>
<h1>Antiscriptural</h1> <Xpage=66>
<hw>An`ti*scrip"tur*al</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Opposed to, or not in accordance with, the Holy Scriptures.</def>
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