The antiparticle of a neutron. It has the same mass as a neutron, but a spin and magnetic moment opposite that of the neutron.

One who maintains that, under the gospel dispensation, the moral law is of no use or obligation, but that faith alone is necessary to salvation. The sect of Antinomians originated with John Agricola, in Germany, about the year 1535.

The tenets or practice of Antinomians.

An Antinomian.

Opposition of one law or rule to another law or rule.

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

Efficacious in curing toothache. A remedy for toothache.

Tending to allay venereal excitement or desire; sedative.

Opposed to the pope or to popery.

Running in a contrary direction.

Straight lines or planes which make angles in some respect opposite in character to those made by parallel lines or planes.

Good against paralysis. A medicine for paralysis.

Antiparalytic.

A fundamental particle which has the same mass as one of the common fundamental particles, but which has an opposite charge, and for which certain other of the properties (e. g. baryon number, strangeness) may be opposite to that of the normal particle. The antiparticle to an electron is called a positron; the antiparticle to a proton is called an antiproton; the antiparticle to a neutron is called an antineutron. When a particle and its corresponding antiparticle collide, they typically annihilate each other with the production of large quantities of energy, usually in the form of radiation. The interaction of a proton and antiproton cause annihilation with production of mesons.

The Sunday after Easter; Low Sunday.

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

Belonging to antipathy; opposite; contrary; allopathic.

One who has an antipathy.

To feel or show antipathy.

Having a natural contrariety; adverse; antipathetic.

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

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

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

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

Opposition by which the quality opposed acquires strength; resistance or reaction roused by opposition or by the action of an opposite principle or quality.

Pertaining to antiperistasis.

Standing before a petal, as a stamen.

Antidotal; alexipharmic.

An opposer of the theory of phlogiston.

Any medicine or diet which tends to check inflammation.

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

A book of antiphons or anthems.

A book containing a collection of antiphons; the book in which the antiphons of the breviary, with their musical notes, are contained.

The response which one side of the choir makes to the other in a chant; alternate chanting or signing.

A book of antiphons.

Antiphonal.

A musical response; also, antiphonal chanting or signing.

The use of words in a sense opposite to their proper meaning; as when a court of justice is called a court of vengeance.

Pertaining to antiphrasis.

Relieving or curing phthisis, or consumption. A medicine for phthisis.

Relieving flatulence; carminative.

Diminishing plasticity.

Good against gout. A medicine for gout.

Pertaining to the antipodes; situated on the opposite side of the globe.

One of the antipodes; anything exactly opposite.

Pertaining to the antipodes, or the opposite side of the world; antipodal.

Those who live on the side of the globe diametrically opposite.

The opposite pole; anything diametrically opposed.

One who is elected, or claims to be, pope in opposition to the pope canonically chosen; esp. applied to those popes who resided at Avignon during the Great Schism.

Of use in curing the itch. An antipsoric remedy.

The putting of one case for another.

Counteracting, or preserving from, putrefaction; antiseptic.

Checking or preventing suppuration. An antipyic medicine.

The condition or state of being free from fever.

Efficacious in preventing or allaying fever. A febrifuge.

An artificial alkaloid, believed to be efficient in abating fever.

Good against burns or pyrosis. Anything of use in preventing or healing burns or pyrosis.

An antiquary.

Character of an antiquary; study or love of antiquities.

To act the part of an antiquary.

To make old, or obsolete; to make antique; to make old in such a degree as to put out of use; hence, to make void, or abrogate.

Grown old. Hence: Bygone; obsolete; out of use; old-fashioned; as, an antiquated law.

Quality of being antiquated.

Antiquatedness.

The act of making antiquated, or the state of being antiquated.

In general, anything very old; but in a more limited sense, a relic or object of ancient art; collectively, the antique, the remains of ancient art, as busts, statues, paintings, and vases.

In an antique manner.

The quality of being antique; an appearance of ancient origin and workmanship.

An antiquary; a collector of antiques.

An admirer of antiquity. [Used by Milton in a disparaging sense.]

The quality of being ancient; ancientness; great age; as, a statue of remarkable antiquity; a family of great antiquity.

Good against the rickets.

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.

One of a sect which opposes the observance of the Christian Sabbath.

Hostile to priests or the priesthood.

The inhabitants of the earth, living on different sides of the equator, whose shadows at noon are cast in opposite directions.

Anthelmintic.

Counteracting scurvy. A remedy for scurvy.

Antiscorbutic.

Opposed to, or not in accordance with, the Holy Scriptures.

Standing before a sepal, or calyx leaf.

Prevention of sepsis by excluding or destroying microorganisms.

a substance which kills or retards the growth of microorganisms, especially when used for protection against infection; a substance which prevents or retards putrefaction, or destroys, or protects from, putrefactive organisms; as, carbolic acid, alcohol, cinchona, and many other agents sold commercially.

Counteracting or preventing putrefaction, or a putrescent tendency in the system; antiputrefactive.

By means of antiseptics.

A remedy against excessive salivation.

Opposed to slavery. Opposition to slavery.

Tending to interrupt or destroy social intercourse; averse to society, or hostile to its existence; as, antisocial principles.

One opposed to the doctrines and practices of socialists or socialism.

Opposite to the sun; -- said of the point in the heavens 180/ distant from the sun.

Good against spasms. A medicine which prevents or allays spasms or convulsions.

A foot of four syllables, the first and fourth short, and the second and third long (#).

Believed to cause a revulsion of fluids or of humors from one part to another. Counteracting spasms; antispasmodic. An antispastic agent.

Good as a remedy against disease of the spleen. An antisplenetic medicine.

In Greek choruses and dances, the returning of the chorus, exactly answering to a previous strophe or movement from right to left. Hence: The lines of this part of the choral song.

Of or pertaining to an antistrophe.

An argument retorted on an opponent.

Antistrumous. A medicine for scrofula.

Good against scrofulous disorders.

Efficacious against syphilis. A medicine for syphilis.

The doctrine of antitheists.

A disbeliever in the existence of God.

An opposition or contrast of words or sentiments occurring in the same sentence; as, /The prodigal robs his heir; the miser robs himself./ /He had covertly shot at Cromwell; he how openly aimed at the Queen./

An antithetic or contrasted statement.

Pertaining to antithesis, or opposition of words and sentiments; containing, or of the nature of, antithesis; contrasted.

By way antithesis.

A substance (sometimes the product of a specific micro-organism and sometimes naturally present in the blood or tissues of an animal), capable of producing immunity from certain diseases, or of counteracting the poisonous effects of pathogenic bacteria.

A prominence on the lower posterior portion of the concha of the external ear, opposite the tragus. See Ear.

An articular surface on the ilium of birds against which the great trochanter of the femur plays.

At the extremity most remote from the hilum, as the embryo, or inverted with respect to the seed, as the radicle.

opposed to trusts, monopolies, or other large combinations of business or capital which threaten fair competition; designed to protect trade and commerce from unfair business practices; -- of laws and regulations.

a medicament used to suppress or relieve coughing; an antitussive substance.

Antitypical.

That of which the type is the pattern or representation; that which is represented by the type or symbol.

of or pertaining to antitypes.

Of or pertaining to an antitype; explaining the type.

Resisting blows; hard.

Opposition or resistance of matter to force.

Opposition to vaccination.

An antivaccinist.