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.

One devoted to the study of ancient times through their relics, as inscriptions, monuments, remains of ancient habitations, statues, coins, manuscripts, etc.; one who searches for and studies the relics of antiquity.

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 (#).

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.

One opposed to vaccination.

Preventing the contagion of smallpox.

Good against venereal poison; antisyphilitic.

The serum of blood rendered antitoxic to a venom by repeated injections of small doses of the venom; also, the component of such a serum which is antitoxic to the venom.

Opposition to vivisection.

One opposed to vivisection

Preventing fermentation.

Preventing fermentation or decomposition. An agent so used.

The entire horn, or any branch of the horn, of a cervine animal, as of a stag.

Furnished with antlers.

The spiral tubular proboscis of lepidopterous insects. See Lepidoptera.

Those who live under the same meridian, but on opposite parallels of latitude, north and south of the equator.

The use of some epithet or the name of some office, dignity, or the like, instead of the proper name of the person; as when his majesty is used for a king, or when, instead of Aristotle, we say, the philosopher; or, conversely, the use of a proper name instead of an appellative, as when a wise man is called a Solomon, or an eminent orator a Cicero.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, antonomasia.

Antonomasia.

A word of opposite meaning; a counterterm; -- used as a correlative of synonym.

Pertaining to, or situated in, the region of the front of the orbit. The antorbital bone.

See Antiorgastic.

A compound formerly supposed to be modification of oxygen, but now known to be hydrogen dioxide; -- so called because apparently antagonistic to ozone, converting it into ordinary oxygen.

Relating to an antrum.

A cavern.

Forward or upward in direction.

To bend forward.

A cavern or cavity, esp. an anatomical cavity or sinus

A vassal or voluntary follower of Frankish princes in their enterprises

An Egyptian deity, the conductor of departed spirits to judgment, represented by a human figure with the head of a jackal, dog or fox.

any of a group of powerful earth spirits or genii; servitors of the gods.

One of the orders of amphibians characterized by the absence of a tail, as the frogs and toads.

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inability to urinate.

inability to urinate.

of or pertaining to anuresis.

Destitute of a tail, as the frogs and toads.