2. An opposing law or rule of any kind.

As it were by his own antinomy, or counterstatute.

Milton.

3. (Metaph.) A contradiction or incompatibility of thought or language; -- in the Kantian philosophy, such a contradiction as arises from the attempt to apply to the ideas of the reason, relations or attributes which are appropriate only to the facts or the concepts of experience.

An`ti*o"chi*an (&?;), a. 1. Pertaining to Antiochus, a contemporary with Cicero, and the founder of a sect of philosophers.

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