Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter A - Page 72
Antiplastic (a.) (Med.) Preventing or checking the process of healing, or granulation.
Antipodagric (a.) (Med.) Good against gout. -- n. A medicine for gout.
Antipodagric (n.) A medicine for gout.
Antipodal (a.) 對蹠地的；對蹠的，正相反的 Pertaining to the antipodes; situated on the opposite side of the globe.
Antipodal (a.) Diametrically opposite. "His antipodal shadow." -- Lowell.
Antipodal (a.) Relating to the antipodes or situated at opposite sides of the earth; "antipodean latitudes"; "antipodal regions of the earth"; "antipodal points on a sphere" [syn: {antipodal}, {antipodean}].
Antipodal (n.) The relation of opposition along a diameter [syn: {antipodal}, {antipodal opposition}, {diametrical opposition}].
Antipode (n.) One of the antipodes; anything exactly opposite.
In tale or history your beggar is ever the just antipode to your king. -- Lamb.
Note: The singular, antipode, is exceptional in formation, but has been used by good writers. Its regular English plural would be [a^]n"t[i^]*p[=o]des, the last syllable rhyming with abodes, and this pronunciation is sometimes heard. The plural form (originally a Latin word without a singular) is in common use, and is pronounced, after the English method of Latin, [a^]n*t[i^]p"[-o]*d[=e]z.
Antipode (n.) Direct opposite; "quiet: an antipode to focused busyness."
Antipodean (a.) Pertaining to the antipodes, or the opposite side of the world; antipodal.
Antipodean (a.) Relating to the antipodes or situated at opposite sides of the earth; "antipodean latitudes"; "antipodal regions of the earth"; "antipodal points on a sphere" [syn: antipodal, antipodean].
Antipodes (n.) Those who live on the side of the globe diametrically opposite.
Antipodes (n.) The country of those who live on the opposite side of the globe. -- Latham.
Antipodes (n.) Anything exactly opposite or contrary.
Can there be a greater contrariety unto Christ's judgment, a more perfect antipodes to all that hath hitherto been gospel? -- Hammond.
Antipodes (n.) Any two places or regions on diametrically opposite sides of the Earth; "the North Pole and the South Pole are antipodes."
Antipole (n.) The opposite pole; anything diametrically opposed. -- Geo. Eliot.
Antipope (n.) One who is elected, or claims to be, pope in opposition to the pope canonically chosen; esp. applied to those popes who resided at Avignon during the Great Schism.
Antipope (n.) Someone who is elected pope in opposition to another person who is held to be canonically elected; "the antipopes resided in Avignon during the Great Schism."
Antipsoric (a.) (Med.) Of use in curing the itch.
Antipsoric (n.) (Med.) An antipsoric remedy.
Antiptosis (n.) (Gram.) The putting of one case for another. Antiputrefactive
Antiputrefactive (a.) Alt. of Antiputrescent.
Antiputrescent (a.) Counteracting, or preserving from, putrefaction; antiseptic.
Antipyic (a.) (Med.) Checking or preventing suppuration.
Antipyic (n.) An antipyic medicine.
Antipyresis (n.) (Med.) The condition or state of being free from fever.
Antipyresis (n.) Medication with antipyretics to treat a fever.
Antipyretic (a.) (Med.) Efficacious in preventing or allaying fever.
Antipyretic (n.) A febrifuge.
Antipyretic (a.) Preventing or alleviating fever [ant: pyretic]
Antipyretic (n.) Any medicine that lowers body temperature to prevent or alleviate fever [syn: antipyretic, febrifuge].
Antipyrine (n.) (Med.) An artificial alkaloid, believed to be efficient in abating fever.
Antipyrotic (a.) (Med.) Good against burns or pyrosis.
Antipyrotic (n.) (Med.) Anything of use in preventing or healing burns or pyrosis.
Antiquarian (a.) Pertaining to antiquaries, or to antiquity; as, antiquarian literature.
Antiquarian (n.) An antiquary.
Antiquarian (n.) A drawing paper of large size. See under Paper, n.
Antiquarian (a.) Of or relating to persons who study or deal in antiques or antiquities.
Antiquarian (a.) Of or relating to antiques or antiquities.
Antiquarian (n.) An expert or collector of antiquities [syn: antiquary, antiquarian, archaist].
Antiquarian (n.) One who collects, studies, or deals in objects or relics from the past.
Antiquarian (n.) Of or pertaining to antiquarians or objects or relics from the past.
Antiquarian (n.) Dealing in or concerned with old or rare books. Antiquarian is from Latin antiquarius, "pertaining to antiquity," from antiquus, "ancient."
Antiquarianism (n.) Character of an antiquary; study or love of antiquities. -- Warburton.
Antiquarianize (v. i.) To act the part of an antiquary. [Colloq.]
Antiquary (a.) Pertaining to antiquity. [R.] "Instructed by the antiquary times." -- Shak.
Antiquaries (n. pl. ) of Antiquary.
Antiquary (n.) One devoted to the study of ancient times through their relics, as inscriptions, monuments, remains of ancient habitations, statues, coins, manuscripts, etc.; one who searches for and studies the relics of antiquity.
Antiquary (n.) An expert or collector of antiquities [syn: antiquary, antiquarian, archaist].
Antiquate (v. t.) To make old, or obsolete; to make antique; to make old in such a degree as to put out of use; hence, to make void, or abrogate.
Christianity might reasonably introduce new laws, and antiquate or abrogate old one. -- Sir M. Hale.
Antiquate (v.) Make obsolete or old-fashioned.
Antiquate (v.) Give an antique appearance to; "antique furniture" [syn: antique, antiquate].
Antiquated (a.) Grown old. Hence: Bygone; obsolete; out of use; old-fashioned; as, an antiquated law. "Antiquated words." -- Dryden.
Old Janet, for so he understood his antiquated attendant was denominated. -- Sir W. Scott.
Syn: Ancient; old; antique; obsolete. See Ancient.
Antiquated (a.) So extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period; "a ramshackle antediluvian tenement"; "antediluvian ideas"; "archaic laws" [syn: antediluvian, antiquated, archaic].
Antiquated (a.) 陳舊的；過時的；老式的 Old-fashioned or unsuitable for modern society.
// It will take many years to modernize these antiquated industries.
// Compared with modern satellite dishes, ordinary TV aerials look positively antiquated.
// Antiquated ideas/ attitudes/ values.
// Antiquated laws/ machinery/ technology.
Antiquatedness (n.) Quality of being antiquated.
Antiquateness (n.) Antiquatedness. [Obs.]
Antiquation (n.) The act of making antiquated, or the state of being antiquated. -- Beaumont.
Antique (a.) 古代的，古老的；年代久遠的；古風的，古式的 Old; ancient; of genuine antiquity; as, an antique statue. In this sense it usually refers to the flourishing ages of Greece and Rome.
For the antique world excess and pride did hate. -- Spenser.
Antique (a.) Old, as respects the present age, or a modern period of time; of old fashion; antiquated; as, an antique robe. "Antique words." -- Spenser.
Antique (a.) Made in imitation of antiquity; as, the antique style of Thomson's "Castle of Indolence."
Antique (a.) Odd; fantastic. [In this sense, written {antic}.]
Syn: Ancient; antiquated; obsolete; antic; old-fashioned; old. See {Ancient}.
Antique (n.) 古物；古董，古玩 [C]；古風，古式；古希臘和古羅馬藝術風格 [the S] In general, anything very old; but in a more limited sense, a relic or object of ancient art; collectively, the antique, the remains of ancient art, as busts, statues, paintings, and vases.
Misshapen monuments and maimed antiques. -- Byron.
Antique (a.) Made in or typical of earlier times and valued for its age; "the beautiful antique French furniture."
Antique (a.) Out of fashion; "a suit of rather antique appearance"; "demode (or outmoded) attire"; "outmoded ideas" [syn: {antique}, {demode}, {ex}, {old-fashioned}, {old-hat(p)}, {outmoded}, {passe}, {passee}].
Antique (a.) Belonging to or lasting from times long ago; "age-old customs"; "the antique fear that days would dwindle away to complete darkness" [syn: {age-old}, {antique}].
Antique (n.) An elderly man [syn: {old-timer}, {oldtimer}, {gaffer}, {old geezer}, {antique}].
Antique (n.) Any piece of furniture or decorative object or the like produced in a former period and valuable because of its beauty or rarity.
Antique (v.) Shop for antiques; "We went antiquing on Saturday."
Antique (v.) Give an antique appearance to; "antique furniture" [syn: {antique}, {antiquate}].
Antiquely (adv.) In an antique manner.
Antiqueness (n.) The quality of being antique; an appearance of ancient origin and workmanship.
Antiquist (n.) An antiquary; a collector of antiques. [R.] -- Pinkerton.
Antiquitarian (n.) An admirer of antiquity.
Note: [Used by Milton in a disparaging sense.] [Obs.]
Antiquities (n. pl. ) of Antiquity.
Antiquity (n.) The quality of being ancient; ancientness; great age; as, a statue of remarkable antiquity; a family of great antiquity.
Antiquity (n.) Old age. [Obs.]
It not your voice broken? . . . and every part about you blasted with antiquity? -- Shak.
Antiquity (n.) Ancient times; former ages; times long since past; as, Cicero was an eloquent orator of antiquity.
Antiquity (n.) The ancients; the people of ancient times.
That such pillars were raised by Seth all antiquity has ?vowed. -- Sir W. Raleigh.
Antiquity (n.) An old gentleman. [Obs.]
You are a shrewd antiquity, neighbor Clench. -- B. Jonson.
Antiquity (n.) A relic or monument of ancient times; as, a coin, a statue, etc.; an ancient institution.
Note: [In this sense, usually in the plural.] "Heathen antiquities." -- Bacon.
Antiquity (n.) The historic period preceding the Middle Ages in Europe.
Antiquity (n.) Extreme oldness [syn: ancientness, antiquity].
Antiquity (n.) An artifact surviving from the past.
Antiquity (n.) [ U ] （尤指六世紀以前的）古代 The distant past (= a long time ago), especially before the sixth century.
// Cannabis has been used for medicinal purposes since antiquity.
// Before creating this sculpture, she studied all the masterpieces of classical antiquity.
Antiquity (n.) [ C ] 古物；古董；古跡 An object that was created a very long time ago.
// Under Greek law, all antiquities that are discovered in Greece belong to the government.
Antirachitic (a.) (Med.) Good against the rickets.
Anti-racism (n.) 反種族歧視主義 The policy or practice of opposing racism and promoting racial tolerance.
‘This would be the blueprint for all schooling: I'd promote anti-racism and religious tolerance so pupils knew what it was.’
Antirenter (n.) One opposed to the payment of rent; esp. one of those who in 1840-47 resisted the collection of rents claimed by the patroons from the settlers on certain manorial lands in the State of New York. -- An`ti*rent"ism, n.
Antisabbatarian (n.) (Eccl.) One of a sect which opposes the observance of the Christian Sabbath.
Antisacerdotal (a.) Hostile to priests or the priesthood. -- Waterland. Antiscians
Compare: Priesthood
Priesthood (n.) [U] [Mass noun] (often the priesthood) [theS] 教士（或祭司等的）職位（或身分）；（教會的）全體教士（或牧師、僧侶等）[G] The office or position of a priest.
‘The ordination of women to the priesthood.’
Priesthood (n.) [U] [Mass noun] Priests in general.
‘There was relief among the Anglican priesthood.’
Antiscians (n. pl.) Alt. of Antiscii.
Antiscii (n. pl.) The inhabitants of the earth, living on different sides of the equator, whose shadows at noon are cast in opposite directions.
The inhabitants of the north and south temperate zones are always Antiscians. -- Brande & C. Antiscoletic
Antiscoletic (a.) Alt. of Antiscolic.
Antiscolic (a.) (Med.) Anthelmintic.
Antiscorbutic (a.) (Med.) Counteracting scurvy.
Antiscorbutic (n.) A remedy for scurvy.
Antiscorbutical (a.) (Med.) Antiscorbutic.
Antiscriptural (a.) Opposed to, or not in accordance with, the Holy Scriptures.
Antisepalous (a.) (Bot.) Standing before a sepal, or calyx leaf.
Antiseptic (n.) 抗菌劑，防腐劑 [C] A substance which kills or retards the growth of microorganisms, especially when used for protection against infection; a substance which prevents or retards putrefaction, or destroys, or protects from, putrefactive organisms; as, carbolic acid, alcohol, cinchona, and many other agents sold commercially.
Antiseptic (a.) Alt. of Antiseptical.
Antiseptical (a.) 抗菌的，防腐的；使用抗菌劑的，使用防腐劑的 Counteracting or preventing putrefaction, or a putrescent tendency in the system; antiputrefactive.
{Antiseptic surgery}, That system of surgical practice which insists upon a systematic use of antiseptics in the performance of operations and the dressing of wounds.
Antiseptic (n.) 抗菌劑，防腐劑 [C] A substance which prevents or retards putrefaction, or destroys, or protects from, putrefactive organisms; as, salt, carbolic acid, alcohol, cinchona.
Antiseptic (a.) Thoroughly clean and free of or destructive to disease-causing organisms; "doctors in antiseptic green coats"; "the antiseptic effect of alcohol"; "it is said that marjoram has antiseptic qualities" [ant: {infected}, {septic}].
Antiseptic (a.) Clean and honest; "antiseptic financial practices."
Antiseptic (a.) Freeing from error or corruption; "the antiseptic effect of sturdy criticism."
Antiseptic (a.) Devoid of objectionable language; "lyrics as antiseptic as Sunday School."
Antiseptic (n.) A substance that destroys micro-organisms that carry disease without harming body tissues.
Antiseptic (n.) [ C or U ] 防腐劑；（尤指）殺菌劑，消毒劑 A chemical used for preventing infection in an injury, especially by killing bacteria.
// Antiseptic is used to sterilize the skin before giving an injection.
// Many of the ingredients for antiseptics come from the rainforests.
Antiseptic (a.) 不受感染的；消過毒的；無菌的 Completely free from infection.
// In the 1870s and 1880s, doctors began to follow the principles of antiseptic surgery.
Antiseptic (n.) (Disapproving) 過分整潔而顯得單調的，過於整潔而呆板的 Too clean and showing no imagination and character.
// There's an antiseptic feeling to the new town centre, with its covered shopping mall.
Antiseptically (adv.) By means of antiseptics.
Antislavery (a.) Opposed to slavery.
Antislavery (n.) Opposition to slavery.
Antisocial (a.) Tending to interrupt or destroy social intercourse; averse to society, or hostile to its existence; as, antisocial principles.
Antisocial (a.) Shunning contact with others; "standoffish and antisocial"; "he's not antisocial; just shy."
Antisocial (a.) Hostile to or disruptive of normal standards of social behavior; "criminal behavior or conduct that violates the rights of other individuals is antisocial"; "crimes...and other asocial behavior"; "an antisocial deed" [syn: antisocial, asocial].
Antisocialist (n.) One opposed to the doctrines and practices of socialists or socialism.
Antisolar (a.) Opposite to the sun; -- said of the point in the heavens 180 [deg] distant from the sun.
Antispasmodic (a.) (Med.) Good against spasms. -- n. A medicine which prevents or allays spasms or convulsions.
Antispasmodic (n.) A drug used to relieve or prevent spasms (especially of the smooth muscles) [syn: antispasmodic, spasmolytic, antispasmodic agent].
Antispast (n.) (Pros.) A foot of four syllables, the first and fourth short, and the second and third long (#).
Antispast (n.) (In British) (Prosody) A group of four syllables, two short and two long, in a metric foot.
Compare: Prosody
Prosody (n.) [Mass noun] 作詩法；詩體論；韻律學 The patterns of rhythm and sound used in poetry.
‘The translator is not obliged to reproduce the prosody of the original.’
Prosody (n.) [Mass noun] The theory or study of prosody.
‘A general theory of prosody.’
Prosody (n.) [Mass noun] The patterns of stress and intonation in a language.
‘The salience of prosody in child language acquisition.’
[Count noun] ‘Early English prosodies.’
Antispastic (a.) (Med.) 止痙攣的 Believed to cause a revulsion of fluids or of humors from one part to another.
Antispastic (a.) (Med.) Counteracting spasms; antispasmodic.
Antispastic (n.) An antispastic agent.
Antisplenetic (a.) Good as a remedy against disease of the spleen.
Antisplenetic (n.) An antisplenetic medicine.
Antistrophe (n.) （古希臘合唱詩或劇中）向右轉時的回舞歌；交錯詩節中的第二詩節及其類似詩節 In Greek choruses and dances, the returning of the chorus, exactly answering to a previous strophe or movement from right to left. Hence: The lines of this part of the choral song.
It was customary, on some occasions, to dance round the altars whilst they sang the sacred hymns, which consisted of three stanzas or parts; the first of which, called strophe, was sung in turning from east to west; the other, named antistrophe, in returning from west to east; then they stood before the altar, and sang the epode, which was the last part of the song. -- Abp. Potter.
Antistrophe (n.) (Rhet.) The repetition of words in an inverse order; as, the master of the servant and the servant of the master.
Antistrophe (n.) (Rhet.) The retort or turning of an adversary's plea against him.
Antistrophe (n.) The section of a choral ode answering a previous strophe in classical Greek drama; the second of two metrically corresponding sections in a poem.
Antistrophic (a.) Of or pertaining to an antistrophe.
Antistrophic (a.) Of or relating to an antistrophe.
Antistrophon (n.) (Rhet.) An argument retorted on an opponent. -- Milton.
Antistrumatic (a.) (Med.) Antistrumous.
Antistrumatic (n.) (Med.) A medicine for scrofula.
Antistrumous (a.) (Med.) Good against scrofulous disorders. -- Johnson. Wiseman.
Antisyphilitic (a.) (Med.) Efficacious against syphilis.
Antisyphilitic (n.) (Med.) A medicine for syphilis.
Antitheism (n.) The doctrine of antitheists. -- An`ti*the*is"tic, a.
Antitheist (n.) A disbeliever in the existence of God.
Antitheses (n. pl. ) of Antithesis.
Antithesis (n.) (Rhet.) 對立面；對立；對照；對偶；（修辭學中的）對語，對句 An opposition or contrast of words or sentiments occurring in the same sentence; as, "The prodigal robs his heir; the miser robs himself." "He had covertly shot at Cromwell; he how openly aimed at the Queen."
Antithesis (n.) The second of two clauses forming an antithesis.
Antithesis (n.) Opposition; contrast.
Antithesis (n.) Exact opposite; "his theory is the antithesis of mine."
Antithesis (n.) The juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas to give a feeling of balance.