An"ti*thet (&?;), n. [L. antitheton, fr. Gr. &?;, &?;, antithetic.] An antithetic or contrasted statement. Bacon.
{ An`ti*thet"ic (&?;), An`ti*thet"ic*al (&?;), } a. [Gr. &?;.] Pertaining to antithesis, or opposition of words and sentiments; containing, or of the nature of, antithesis; contrasted.
An`ti*thet"ic*al*ly, adv. By way antithesis.
{ An`ti*tox"in, An`ti*tox"ine } (&?;), n. [Pref. anti- + toxin.] 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.
An"ti-trade` (&?;), n. A tropical wind blowing steadily in a direction opposite to the trade wind.
||An*tit"ra*gus (&?;), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?;.] (Anat.) A prominence on the lower posterior portion of the concha of the external ear, opposite the tragus. See Ear.
||An`ti*tro*chan"ter (&?;), n. (Anat.) An articular surface on the ilium of birds against which the great trochanter of the femur plays.
{ An*tit"ro*pal (&?;), An*tit"ro*pous (&?;), } a. [Pref. anti- + Gr. &?; turn, &?; to turn.] (Bot.) At the extremity most remote from the hilum, as the embryo, or inverted with respect to the seed, as the radicle. Lindley.