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  • English Word Antipathize Definition To feel or show antipathy.
  • English Word Antipathous Definition Having a natural contrariety; adverse; antipathetic.
  • English Word Antipathy Definition Contrariety or opposition in feeling; settled aversion or dislike; repugnance; distaste.
  • English Word Antipathy Definition Natural contrariety; incompatibility; repugnancy of qualities; as, oil and water have antipathy.
  • English Word Antipeptone Definition A product of gastric and pancreatic digestion, differing from hemipeptone in not being decomposed by the continued action of pancreatic juice.
  • English Word Antiperiodic Definition A remedy possessing the property of preventing the return of periodic paroxysms, or exacerbations, of disease, as in intermittent fevers.
  • English Word Antiperistaltic Definition Opposed to, or checking motion; acting upward; -- applied to an inverted action of the intestinal tube.
  • English Word Antiperistasis Definition Opposition by which the quality opposed asquires strength; resistance or reaction roused by opposition or by the action of an opposite principle or quality.
  • English Word Antiperistatic Definition Pertaining to antiperistasis.
  • English Word Antipetalous Definition Standing before a petal, as a stamen.
  • English Word Antipharmic Definition Antidotal; alexipharmic.
  • English Word Antiphlogistian Definition An opposer of the theory of phlogiston.
  • English Word Antiphlogistic Definition Opposed to the doctrine of phlogiston.
  • English Word Antiphlogistic Definition Counteracting inflammation.
  • English Word Antiphlogistic Definition Any medicine or diet which tends to check inflammation.
  • English Word Antiphon Definition A musical response; alternate singing or chanting. See Antiphony, and Antiphone.
  • English Word Antiphon Definition A verse said before and after the psalms.
  • English Word Antiphonal Definition Of or pertaining to antiphony, or alternate singing; sung alternately by a divided choir or opposite choirs.
  • English Word Antiphonal Definition A book of antiphons or anthems.
  • English Word Antiphonary Definition A book containing a collection of antiphons; the book in which the antiphons of the breviary, with their musical notes, are contained.
  • English Word Antiphone Definition The response which one side of the choir makes to the other in a chant; alternate chanting or signing.
  • English Word Antiphoner Definition A book of antiphons.
  • English Word Antiphonic Definition Antiphonal.
  • English Word Antiphonies Definition of Antiphony
  • English Word Antiphony Definition A musical response; also, antiphonal chanting or signing.
  • English Word Antiphony Definition An anthem or psalm sung alternately by a choir or congregation divided into two parts. Also figuratively.
  • English Word Antiphrasis Definition The use of words in a sense opposite to their proper meaning; as when a court of justice is called a court of vengeance.
  • English Word Antiphrastic Definition Alt. of Antiphrastical
  • English Word Antiphrastical Definition Pertaining to antiphrasis.
  • English Word Antiphthisic Definition Relieving or curing phthisis, or consumption.