Dictionary: AN'TIC – AN-TIC'I-PA-TO-RY

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AN'TIC, a. [From Fr. antique; L. antiquus; It. antico; a sense derived from the grotesque figures of antiques.]

Odd; fanciful; as, antic tricks.

AN'TIC, n.

  1. A buffoon or merry Andrew; one that practices odd gesticulations. – Shak.
  2. Odd appearance; fanciful figure. – Spenser.
  3. In architecture, sculpture and painting, such pieces as were made by the ancients; usually written antique, and pronounced anteek, but without any good reason.

AN'TIC, v.t.

To make antic. – Shak.

AN-TI-CA-CHEC'TIC, a. [Gr. αντι, and καχεκτης, of an ill habit of body.]

Curing or tending to cure an ill habit of the constitution. – Johnson.

AN-TI-CA-CHEC'TIC, n.

A medicine that tends to correct an ill habit of body. – Coxe.

AN-TI-CAR-NIV'O-ROUS, a.

Opposed to feeding on flesh.

AN-TI-CA-TAR'RHAL, a. [αντι, against, and καταρῥοος, a catarrh.]

Good against catarrh.

AN-TI-CA-TAR'RHAL, n.

A remedy for catarrh. – Coxe.

AN-TI-CAU-SOT'IC, a. [Gr. αντι, against, and καυσος, a burning fever.]

Good against a burning fever.

AN-TI-CAU-SOT'IC, n.

A remedy for a burning fever. – Coxe.

AN'TI-CHAM-BER, n.

Dr. Johnson prefers Ante-chamber, which see. But ante and anti are the same word in different dialects; and have the same radical signification. [See Ante.]

AN'TI-CHRIST, n. [Gr. αντι, against, and Christ.]

A great adversary of Christ; the man of sin; described 1 John ii. 18. 2 Thess. ii. Rev. ix. Protestants generally suppose this adversary to be the Papal power; and some divines believe that, in a more general sense, the word extends to any persons who deny Christ or oppose the fundamental doctrines of Christianity. – Encyc. Brown. Buck.

AN-TI-CHRIS'TIAN, a.

Pertaining to Antichrist; opposite to or opposing the Christian religion.

AN-TI-CHRIS'TIAN, n.

A follower of Antichrist; one opposed to the Christian religion.

AN-TI-CHRIS'TIAN-ISM, a.

Opposition or contrariety of the Christian religion.

AN-TI-CHRIS-TIAN'I-TY, n.

Opposition or contrariety to Christianity.

AN-TI-CHRIS'TIAN-IZE, v.t.

To seduce from Christianity.

AN-TICH'RO-NISM, n. [Gr. αντι, and χρονος, time.]

Deviation from the true order of time. Selden.

AN-TIC'I-PATE, v.t. [L. anticipo, of ante, before, and capio, to take.]

  1. To take or act, before another, so as to prevent him; to take first possession.
  2. To take before the proper time; as, the advocate has anticipated that part of his argument.
  3. To foretaste or foresee; to have a previous view or impression of something future; as, to anticipate the pleasures of an entertainment; to anticipate the evils of life.
  4. To prevent by crowding in before; to preclude. Johnson. [This sense is essentially included in the first.]

AN-TIC'I-PA-TED, pp.

Taken before; foretasted; foreseen; precluded; prevented.

AN-TIC'I-PA-TING, ppr.

Taking before; foretasting; precluding; preventing.

AN-TIC-I-PA'TION, n.

  1. The act of taking up, placing, or considering something before the proper time, in natural order; prevention.
  2. Foretaste; previous view or impression of what is to happen afterward; as, the anticipation of the joys of heaven. The happy anticipation of a renewed existence in company with the spirits of the just. – Thodey.
  3. Previous notion; preconceived opinion, produced in the mind, before the truth is known; slight previous impression.
  4. The attack of a fever before the usual time. – Coxe.
  5. In music, the obtrusion of a chord upon a syncopated note, to which it forms a discord. – Busby.

AN-TIC'I-PA-TIVE, a.

Containing anticipation.

AN-TIC'I-PA-TOR, n.

Ono who anticipates.

AN-TIC'I-PA-TO-RY, a.

Taking before the time. – More.