An*tip"a*thous (&?;), a. Having a natural contrariety; adverse; antipathetic. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.
An*tip"a*thy (&?;), n.; pl. Antipathies (&?;). [L. antipathia, Gr. &?;; &?; against + &?; to suffer. Cf. F. antipathie. See Pathos.] 1. Contrariety or opposition in feeling; settled aversion or dislike; repugnance; distaste.
Inveterate antipathies against particular nations, and passionate attachments to others, are to be avoided.
Washington.
2. Natural contrariety; incompatibility; repugnancy of qualities; as, oil and water have antipathy.
A habit is generated of thinking that a natural antipathy exists between hope and reason.
I. Taylor.
Antipathy is opposed to sympathy. It is followed by to, against, or between; also sometimes by for.
Syn. -- Hatred; aversion; dislike; disgust; distaste; enmity; ill will; repugnance; contrariety; opposition. See Dislike.
An`ti*pep"tone (&?;), n. (Physiol. Chem.) A product of gastric and pancreatic digestion, differing from hemipeptone in not being decomposed by the continued action of pancreatic juice.
An`ti*pe`ri*od"ic (&?;), n. (Med.) A remedy possessing the property of preventing the return of periodic paroxysms, or exacerbations, of disease, as in intermittent fevers.
An`ti*per`i*stal"tic (&?;), a. (Med.) Opposed to, or checking motion; acting upward; -- applied to an inverted action of the intestinal tube.
||An`ti*pe*ris"ta*sis (&?;), n. [Gr. &?;; &?; against + &?; a standing around, fr. &?; to stand around; &?; around + &?; to stand.] Opposition by which the quality opposed asquires strength; resistance or reaction roused by opposition or by the action of an opposite principle or quality.
An`ti*per`i*stat"ic (&?;), a. Pertaining to antiperistasis.
An`ti*pet"al*ous (&?;), a. [Pref. anti- + petal.] (Bot.) Standing before a petal, as a stamen.
An`ti*phar"mic (&?;), a. [Pref. anti- + Gr. &?; poison.] (Med.) Antidotal; alexipharmic.
An`ti*phlo*gis"tian (&?;), n. An opposer of the theory of phlogiston.
An`ti*phlo*gis"tic (&?;), a. 1. (Chem.) Opposed to the doctrine of phlogiston.