Dictionary: AN-TI-CLI'MAX – AN-TI-E-MET'IC

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AN-TI-CLI'MAX, n. [Gr. αντι, opposite, and κλιμαξ, climax. See Climate.]

A sentence in which the ideas fall or become less important and striking at the close, opposed to climax. For example, Next comes Dalhousie, the great God of war, / Lieutenant Col'nel to the Earl of Mar.

AN-TI-CLI'NAL, or AN-TI-CLIN'IC, a. [or AN-TI-CLIN'IC-AL; Gr. αντι and κλινω, to incline.]

In geology, an anticlinal line is a line showing where rock-strata dip in opposite directions.

AN'TIC-LY, adv.

In an antic manner; with odd postures and gesticulations; with fanciful appearance. – Shak.

AN'TIC-MASK, or AN'TI-MASK, n.

A mask of antics. – Bacon. B. Jonson.

AN-TI-CON-STI-TU'TION-AL, a.

Opposed to or against the constitution. – Bolingbroke.

AN-TI-CON-STI-TU'TION-AL-IST, n.

One opposed to the constitution.

AN-TI-CON-TA'GION-IST, n.

One who opposes the doctrine of contagion.

AN-TI-CON-TA'GIOUS, a. [Gr. αντι, and contagious.]

Opposing or destroying contagion.

AN-TI-CON-VUL'SIVE, a. [Gr. αντι, and convulsive.]

Good against convulsions. – Floyer.

AN'TI-COR, n. [anti, and Fr. cœur, or L. cor, the heart.]

Among farriers, an inflammation in a horse's throat, answering to the quinsy in man. – Encyc.

AN-TI-COS-MET'IC, a. [anti and cosmetic. See Cosmetic.]

Destructive or injurious to beauty.

AN-TI-COS-MET'IC, n.

Any preparation which injures beauty.

AN'TI-COURT, a.

In opposition to the court. [Not used.] – Reresby.

AN-TI-COURT-IER, n. [anticōrtyur; anti and courtier.]

One who opposes the court, or the measures of administration. – Ash.

AN-TI-CRE-A'TOR, n.

One that opposes the Creator.

AN-TI-DEM-O-CRAT'IC, or AN-TI-DEM-O-CRAT'IC-AL, a.

Opposing democracy; contrary to government by the people. – Mitford.

AN'TI-DO-TAL, a.

That has the quality of preventing the ill effects of poison, or of any thing noxious or mischievous.

AN'TI-DOTE, n. [Gr. αντιδοτος, of αντι, against, and διδωμι, to give; W. dodi, to give.]

  1. A medicine to counteract the effects of poison, or of any thing noxious taken into the stomach.
  2. Whatever tends to prevent mischievous effects, or to counteract the evil which something else might produce.

AN-TI-DO'TI-CAL, a.

Serving as an antidote.

AN-TI-DO'TI-CAL-LY, adv.

By way of antidote. – Brown.

AN-TI-DYS-EN-TER'IC, a. [Gr. αντι, against, and δυσεντερικος, dysenteric.]

Good against the dysentery, or bloody flux.

AN-TI-DYS-EN-TER'IC, n.

A remedy for dysentery. – Coxe.

AN-TI-DYS'U-RIC, a. [Gr. αντι, δυς, and ουρον, urine.]

Counteracting or curing dysury, or the difficulty of voiding urine.

AN-TI-E-MET'IC, a. [Gr. αντι, against, and εμετικος, emetic, from εμεω, to vomit.]

Having the quality of allaying vomiting.

AN-TI-E-MET'IC, n.

A remedy to check or allay vomiting.