antichrist 
manifested and gathered about a central personal agency. 
Roman Catholic writers commonly interpret the word ge- 
nerically of any adversary of Christ and of the authority 
of the church, hut specifically as the last and greatest per- 
secutor of tile Christian church at the end of the world. 
The name has also been applied to the pretenders to the 
messiahship, or false Christ.s (Mat. x\iv. -24), who have 
arisen at various periods, as being antagonistic to the 
true Christ. Of these as many as sixty-four have been 
reckoned, including some of little importance, and also 
some, as Mohammed, wh't cannot properly be classed 
among them. 
antichristian (an-ti-kris'tian), a. and n. [< ML. 
anticliristianus, < LGr. avrixpioTtav6f, < ivrirpia- 
Tof. see antichrist. Cf. Christian.] I. a. 1. Of 
or pertaining to Antichrist. 
They are equally mad who say Bishops are so Jure Divino 
that they must be continued, and they who say they are so 
Antichruttian that they must be put away. 
tietilen. Table-Talk, p. 28. 
2. Antagonistic to or opposing the Christian 
religion. 
Babel and Babylon its successor remain in the subse- 
quent Biblical literature as types of the God-defying and 
antichriMan systems that have succeeded each other from 
the time of Nimrod to this day. 
Damon, Origin of World, p. 26<i. 
II. x. One opposed to the Christian religion. 
antichristianism (au-ti-kris'tian-izm), . [< 
antichrintiaii +-I.WM.] Opposition to Christian- 
ity; conduct or belief opposed to Christianity. 
Have we not seen many whose opinions have fastened 
upon one another the brand of antiflirMianism? 
Decay of Christ. Piety. 
antichristianize (an-ti-kris'tian-Iz), v. i. [< 
antichristian + -4ze.] To antagonize Christian- 
ity. [Rare.] 
antichronical (au-ti-kron'i-kal), a. [< Gr. avri, 
against, instead of, + xP^of, time (see chronic), 
+ -al. Cf. Gr. avTixpovia, the use of one tense 
for another: see anachronism.] Deviating from 
the proper order of time; erroneously dated. 
[Rare.] 
antichronically (an-ti-kron'i-kal-i), adv. In an 
antichronical manner. [Rare.] 
antichronism (an-tik'ro-nizm), n. [< Gr. avri- 
Xpoviafiuf, the use of one tense for another, < 
avri, against, instead of, + xp^vos, time, tense : 
see chronic.] Deviation from the true order 
of time; anachronism. [Rare.] 
Our chronologies are, by transcribing, interpolation, mis- 
printing, and creeping in of antichrontenm, now and then 
strangely disordered. Selden, Drayton's Polyolbion, iv. 
antichthon (an-tik'thon), n. ; pi. antichthones 
(-tho-nez). [< L. antichthones, pi., < Gr. av- 
rixOovef, pl. ; the people of an opposite hemi- 
sphere, < avTLxOuv, sing., an opposite hemi- 
sphere j in the Pythagorean system of the uni- 
verse, avrixffuv (so. 717), an opposite or counter 
earth ; < avri, against, opposite to, + x^ v , the 
ground, the earth : seechthonic. Cf. autochthon.] 
1. In Pythagorean astronomy, an imaginary in- 
visible planet continually opposing the earth 
and eclipsing the central fire, round which it 
was supposed to revolve, in common with the 
earth, moon, sun, certain planets, and the fixed 
stars. 
Of the sacred flre, the hearth of the universe, with suns 
and planets and the earth's double antichthon revolving 
round it, the whole enclosed in a crystal globe with no- 
thing outside, ... we find no mention in these verses [of 
Hierocles]. W. K. Cli/ord, Lectures, II. 268. 
2. pi. The inhabitants of an opposite hemi- 
sphere. 
anticipant (an-tis'i-pant), a. [< L. antici- 
pan(t-)s, ppr. of anticipdre, anticipate: see an- 
ticipate.] Anticipating; anticipative: in pa- 
thol., applied to periodic diseases whose at- 
tacks occur at decreasing intervals. 
The first pangs 
Of wakening guilt, anticipant of hell. 
Southey, The Rose. 
anticipate (an-tis'i-pat), . ; pret. and pp. an- 
ticipated, ppr. anticipating. [< L. anttcipatH.-; 
pp. of anticipare, take in advance or before the 
time, anticipate, < anti, an old form of ante, 
before (see ante-), + -cipare, < capere, take ; cf . 
antecapere, take before, anticipate. < ante + 
capere.] I. trans. If. To seize or take before- 
hand. 2. To be before in doing something; 
take action in advance of; precede, prevent, 
or preclude by prior action. 
Here art thou in appointment fresh and fair, 
Anticipating time. Shak., T. and ('., iv. 5. 
Time, thou anticipat'st my dread exploits. 
Shak., Macbeth, iv. 1. 
I was determined ... to anticipate their fury, by first 
falling into a passion myself. Goldsmith, Vicar, xiv. 
243 
3. To take, do, use, etc. , before the proper time ; 
precipitate, as an action or event: as, the ad- 
vocate has anticipated that part of his argu- 
ment. 
The revenues of the next year had been iniiiri,i,it,;l. 
jfaeuuloy, N nurnt's Hampden. 
4. To realize beforehand ; foretaste or foresee ; 
have a view or impression of beforehand ; look 
forward to ; expect : as, I never anticipated such 
a disaster; to anticipnti- the pleasures of an 
entertainment. 
I would not antici'/Hite the relish of any happiness, nor 
feel the weight of any misery, before it actually arrives. 
Addison, Spectator, No. 7. 
A reign of terror began, of terror heightened by mys- 
tery; for even that which was endured was less horrible 
than that which was anticipated. 
Macautaif, Warren Hastings. 
5f. To occupy the attention of before the 
proper time. 
I shall not anticipate the reader with farther descrip- 
tions of this kind. Swift. 
=Syn. 2. To get the start of, forestall. 4. To forecast, 
count upon, prepare one's self for, calculate upon. 
II. intrans. To treat of something, as in a 
narrative, before the proper time, 
anticipatedlyt, anticipatelyt (an-tis'i-pa-ted- 
li, -pat-li), am. By anticipation. 
It may well be deemed a singular mark of favor that our 
Lord did intend to bestow upon all pastors, that he did 
anticipately promise to Peter. 
Barrow, The Pope's Supremacy. 
anticonvulsive 
Woe fc> him who is guilty of plotting, of nfiV,. 
royalism, etc. Carlyle, French Rev., II. iii. 2. 
anticlastic (an-ti-klas'tik), a. [< Gr. as if *av- 
TjudaaTudf. < avriKt-dv, bend back, < avri, back, + 
(c/tav, break (verbal adj. /c/laortic).] An epithet 
descriptive of the curvature of a surface, such 
as that of a saddle or the inner surface of an 
anchor-ring, which intersects its tangent-plane 
at the point of contact, and bends away from 
it, partly on one side of it and partly on the 
other, and has thus in some of its normal sec- 
tions curvatures oppositely directed to those in 
Others. Opposed to synclaxtic surfaces, which are illus- 
trated by the surface of a sphere or of the outer portion 
of the anchor-ring. 
An interesting case of equilibrium is suggested by what 
are called rocking stones, where . . . the lower surface of 
a loose mass of rock is worn into a convex or concave, or 
initii-laiitie form, while the bed of rock on which it rests In 
equilibrium may be convex or concave, or of an anticlastic 
form. Thouumn and Tail, Nat. Phil., I. 6. 
Anticlastic stress, two simple bending stresses of equal 
amounts in opposite directions round two sets of parallel 
straight lines perpendicular to one another in the plane of 
the plate ; its effect would be uniform anticlastic curvature. 
Thomson and Tait, Nat. Phil., I. 638. 
anticlimax (an'ti-kli-maks), . [< Gr. avri, op- 
Eosite to, + K?.l/iaS;, a climax : see climax.] A 
gure or fault of style, consisting in an abrupt 
descent from stronger to weaker expressions, or 
from the mention of more important to that of 
less important things: opposed to climax. 
"*"'" 1 J 1 'an-ti-kli'nal), a. and n. [As anticline 
pa 
bei 
re, anticipate : see anticipate.] 1. The act of 
eing before another in doing something; the 
act of taking up, placing, or considering some- 
thing beforehand, before the proper tune, or 
out of the natural order; prior action. 2. 
Foretaste ; realization in advance ; previous 
view or impression of what is to happen after- 
ward; expectation; hope: as, the anticipation 
of the joys of heaven. 
The remembrance of past, or the anticipation of future 
good or evil, could give me neither pleasure nor pain. 
Beattie, Truth, I. ii. 3. 
3. Previous notion ; preconceived opinion, pro- 
duced in the mind before the truth is known ; 
slight previous impression ; forecast. 
What nation is there, that without any teaching, have 
not a kind of anticipation, or preconceived notion of a 
Deity? Derham, 
Many men give themselves up to the first anticipations 
of their minds. Locke, Conduct of Understanding, 25. 
4. In logic, the term used since Cicero (Latin an- 
ticipatio) to translate the "prolepsis" (irpdht/tyic) 
of the Epicureans and Stoics. It denotes any general 
notion considered as resulting from the action of memory 
upon experiences more or less similar. Such a notion is 
called an anticipation because, once possessed, it is called 
up in its entirety by a mere suggestion. It thus acquaints 
us with what has not yet been perceived, by a reference 
to past perceptions. Hence, with later philosophers, the 
word denotes knowledge drawn from the mind, indepen- 
dently of experience ; the knowledge of axioms or first 
principles. With Bacon an anticipation of nature is a 
hasty generalization or hypothesis : opposed to an inter- 
pretation of nature. In Kant's philosophy, anticipation 
is the a priori knowledge that every sensation must have 
degrees of intensive quantity. 
5. In med., the occurrence in the human body 
of any phenomenon, morbid or natural, before 
the usual time. 6. In music, the introduction 
into a chord of one or more of the component 
notes of the chord which follows, producing a 
passing discord. 7. In rhet., prolepsis. = Syn. 
2. Antepast, preconception, expectation, prevision, fore- 
sight, presentiment. 
anticipative (an-tis'i-pa-tiv), a. [< L. as if 
'anticipativus : see anticipate and -ive.] Antici- 
pating or tending to anticipate ; containing an- 
ticipation. 
anticipatively (an-tis'i-pa-tiv-li), adv. By an- 
ticipation. 
Tlie name of his Majesty defamed, the honour of Parlia- 
ment depraved, the writings of both depravedly, antici- 
patively, counterfeitly imprinted. 
Sir T. Brou'ne, Religio Medici, Pref. 
anticipator (an-tis'i-pa-tor), n. [< L. as if 
"anticipator: see anticipate and -or.] One who 
anticipates. 
anticipatory (an-tis'i-pa-to-ri), a. [< antici- 
pate + -ory.] Pertaining to, manifesting, or 
expressing anticipation; anticipative. 
Prophecy being an anticipatortf history. 
Dr. H. More, Seven Churches, Pref. 
It is very true that the anticipatory conditional has to 
do with practical matters chiefly. 
Amer. Jour. Philol., IV. 427, foot-note. 
anticivism (an-ti-siv'izm), n. [< F. anticivisme : 
see anti- and deism.] Opposition or hostility 
to the state or condition of citizenship, or to 
republicanism; bad citizenship. [Rare.] 
from a central axis : applied to stratified rocks 
when they incline or dip from a central un- 
stratified mass, or when in consequence of 
Section of Anticlinal Fold. 
crust-movements they have been folded or 
pressed together so that they dip each way from 
a central plane, which indicates the line parallel 
to which the folding has taken place : opposed to 
synclinal. Occasionally anticlinic and anticlin- 
ical Anticlinal line, or anticlinal axis, in geol., the 
ridge of a wave-like curve from which the strata dip on 
either side, as from the ridge of a house. 
II. n. In geol., an anticlinal line or axis, or 
an anticlinal fold ; an anticlinal arrangement 
of strata : opposed f 
Among the old rocks of Wales and other parts of west- 
ern Britain, it is not uncommon to find the beds thrown 
into a succession of sharp anticlinats and synclinals. 
Huxley, Physiog., p. 214. 
anticline (an'ti-klin), n. [< Gr. avri, opposite, + 
iMvuv, incline. Cf . Gr. bvruMvtiv, bend again.] 
Same as anticlinal. [Rare.] 
anticlinic, anticlinical (an-ti-klin'ik, -i-kal), a. 
Same as anticlinal. [Bare.] 
anticly (an'tik-li), adv. In an antic manner; 
with odd postures and gesticulations; gro- 
tesquely. [Rare.] 
Scamhling, out-facing, fashion-monging boys, 
That lie, and cog, and flout, deprave and slander, 
Go anticly, and show outward hideousuess. 
Shak., Much Ado, v. 1. 
antic-mask (an'tik-mask), n. A mask of antics ; 
an antimask (which see). 
Our request is, we may be admitted, if not for a mask, 
for an antic-mask. B, Jonson, Masque of Augurs. 
anticnemion (au-tik-ne'mi-on), n. ; pi. antic- 
nemia (-a). [< Gr. dprucv^uov, the shin, < avri, 
opposite to, + Kviifui, the part of the leg between 
the knee and the ankle, by medical writers con- 
fined to the tibia.] The anterior edge of the 
tibia ; the shin. [Rare.] 
anticness (an'tik-nes), n. [< antic + -ness.] 
The quality or condition of being antic ;. gro- 
tesqueness ; oddness, as of appearance. 
A port of humorous anticness in carriage. 
Ford, Fancies, iv. 2. 
anticonstitutional (an"ti-kon-sti-tu'shon-al), 
. [< anti- + constitution + -al.] Opposed" to 
or conflicting with the constitution, as of a 
state; unconstitutional. [Rare.] 
Anticonxtilittional dependency of the two houses of par- 
liament on the crown. Bolingbroke, On Parties, xix. 
anticontagious (an'ti-kon-ta'jus), a. [< anti- 
+ contagious.] Counteracting or destroying 
contagion. 
anticonvulsive (an"ti-kon-vul'siv), a. [< atiti- 
+ convulsive.] Efficacious against convulsions. 
