ANT 
by Juvenal, Cicero, &c, Vives adores us, he had feen 
Cae far’s Anti-Catones in an ancient library. 
ANTIA'CID, adj. [from avrt, Gr. and aciaus, Lat. 
four.] Contrary to fournefs; alkalis.'—Oils are antiacids, 
lo far as they blunt acrimony ; but, as they are hard of di- 
geftion, they produce acrimony of another fort. Arbuthnot. 
ANT I'ADES,yi [an-i«o£?, Gr.] The glandulesand ker¬ 
nels, commonly called the almonds, of the ears; alfo an 
inflammation in thofe parts. 
ANTI'AGRI,yi [from «mao£?, the tonfils, and ay§a, 
Gr. a prey.] Tumours of the tonfils. 
ANTIBAC'CHIUS, f. in ancient poetry, a foot con¬ 
fiding of three fyllables, the two firft long, and the lad: 
one fhort; fuch is the word “ funblre.” 
ANTI'BES, a fea-port town in the department of Var, 
and late province of Provence in France. It is oppofite 
to Nice, in the Mediterranean. Lat. 43.35. N. Ion. 7.13.E. 
AN'TIC, adj. [probably from antiquus, Lat. ancient, as 
things out of ufe appear old.] Odd; ridiculoufly wild; 
buffoon in gefdculation : 
Of all our antic fights, and pageantry, 
Which Englilh idiots run in crowds to fee. D.ryden. 
—The prize was to be conferred upon the whiftler, that 
could go through his tune without laughing, though pro¬ 
voked by the antic poftures of a merry Andrew, who was 
to play tricks. Addifon. 
Antic, f. He that plays antics; he that ufes odd gef- 
ticulation; a buffoon: 
Within the hollow crown, 
That rounds the mortal temples of a king, 
Keeps death his court; and there the antic (its, 
Scoffing his (fate. Shakefpeare. 
To Antic, v. a. To make antic: 
Mine own tongue 
Splits what it fpeaks; the wild difguife hath almoft 
Antibl us all. Shakefpeare. 
ANTICAR'DIUM, f. [of amxap^ioi', Gr. of am, 
againft, and zapata, the heart.] The pit of the ftomach, 
or heart-pit. 
ANTICAUSO'TICS,yi [from am,again(I, and xuvco^ 
Gr. a burning fever.] Remedies againft burning fevers. 
ANTICH ACHEC'TIC, adj. [from am, againft, and 
Gr. a bad habit.] Things adapted to the cure of 
a bad conftitution. 
ANTICH AM'BER,/. This word is corruptly written 
for Antechamber, which fee. 
ANTICHOLE'RICA,/. in botany. See Sophora. 
ANTICHO'LICS,/! [of «m, and Gr. cholic.] 
Remedies againft the cholic. 
ANT ICHO'RUS, f. [In the accented catalogus of 
names given by the Lichfield Society, the accent is placed 
on the antepenultima, as if it were derived from ; 
but, If it be derived from then it flionld be placed 
on the penultima. ] In botany, a genus of the obfandria 
monogynia clafs, ranking in the natural order of colum- 
niferae. The generic characters a re—Calyx : perianthtum 
four-leaved, very much expanded : leaflets lanceolate, acu¬ 
minate, deciduous. Corolla : petals four, obovate, ob- 
tufe, the length of the calyx. Stamina: filaments feta- 
ceous, ereit, fhorter than the corolla; antherae roundifli. 
Piftillum : germ fuperior, ovate ; ftyle cylindric, the length 
of the ftamens; ffigmaobtufe. Pericarpium: capfulefu- 
bulate, four-celled, four-valved. Seeds: very many, 
truncate, placed over each other in four rows.— EJJ'ential 
Character. Calyx, four-leaved ; petals, four; capfule, fu¬ 
perior, fubulate, four-celled, four-valved. Seeds, very 
many. 
There is only one fpecies, called antichorus depreffus. 
It refembles the corchorus, and is a (mall procumbent an¬ 
nual plant. Stem round, three or four inches long, al¬ 
ternately branching, growing clofe to the ground. Leaves 
alternate, petioled, oval, grofsly ferrate, fmooth, fome a hat 
ANT' 
plaited. Stipules fubulate. Flowers axillary, two toge¬ 
ther, oppofite, on very fliort thickifti peduncles, yellow. 
BraCtes two, on the upper fide of the peduncle. Fruits 
nodding, clofely reflected under the Item. A native of 
Arabia. 
AN'TlCHRIST, f. [ antichrijlus , Lat. of 
Gr. of am, againft, and Xpir©", Chrift.] Among ecclefi- 
aftical writers, denotes a great adverfary of Chriftianity, 
who is to appear upon the earth towards the end of the 
world. We have demonftrations, deputations, and proofs, 
in great and order number, both that the pope is, and 
that he is not, Antichrift. F. Calmet is very large in de¬ 
ferring the father and mother of Antichrift, his tribe and 
pedigree, his wars and conquefts, his atchievrnents againft 
Gog, Magog, See. Some place his capital at Conftantinople, 
others at Jerufalem, others at Molcow, and fome few at 
London; but the generality at Rome, though thefe laft 
are divided. Grotius and fome others fuppofe Rome Pa¬ 
gan to have been the feat of Antichrift: mod of the Lu¬ 
theran and reformed doCtors contend earneftly for Rome 
Chriftian under the papal hierarchy. In faCt, the point 
having been maturely debated at the council of Gap, held 
in 1603, a refolution was taken thereupon, to infert an ar¬ 
ticle in tiie confellion of faith, whereby the pope is for¬ 
mally declared to be Antichrift. Pope Clement VIII. was 
thing to the quick with this decifion; and even king Hen¬ 
ry IF. of France was not a little mortified, to be thus de¬ 
clared, as he faid, “ an imp of Antichrift.” 
M. le Clerc holds, that the rebel Jews and their leader 
Simon, whole hiftory is given by Jofephus, are to be re¬ 
puted as the true Antichrift. Lightfoot and Vanderhart 
rather apply this character to the Jewifh fanhedrim. Hip- 
politus and others held that the devil himfelf was the 
true Antichrift; that he was to be incarnate, and make 
his appearance in human fhape before the confummation 
of all things. 
Father Malvenda, a Jefuit, hath publifhed a large work 
intitled Antichrijio, in which this fubjeCt is amply difeuff- 
ed. It confifts of thirteen books. In the firft he relates 
all the opinions of the fathers w ith regard to Antichrift. 
In the fecond, he fpeaks of the times when he (hall ap¬ 
pear; and (hews, that all the fathers who luppofed Anti- 
chrift to be near at hand, judged the world was near its 
period. In the third he difeourfes of his origin and na¬ 
tion; and (hews that he is to be a Jew, of the tribe of 
Dan: this he founds on the authority of the fathers; on 
the pafiage in Genefis xlix. 17. DanjhalL be aJ'erpent by the 
way, &c. on that of Jeremy viii. 16. where it is faid, The 
armies of Dan fhall devour the earth ; and on Rev. vii. wit ere 
St.John, enumerating all the tribes of Ifraef, makes no 
mention of that of Dan. In the fourth and fifth books he 
treats of the (igns of Antichrift. In the (ixth, of Iris 
reign and wars. In the (e-venth, of his vices. In the 
eighth, of his doCtrine and miracles. In the ninth, of 
his perfecutions: and, in the reft, of the coming of Enoch 
and Elias, the converfion of the Jews, the reign of Jefus 
Chrift, and the death of Antichrift, after he has reigned 
three years and an half. See alfo Lawman on the Revelation. 
Upon the whole, tire Antichrift mentioned by the apof- 
tle John, 1 Eph. ii. 1S. and more particularly defcribecl 
in the book of Revelation, feeins evidently to be the fame 
with the Mm of Sin, &c. charaCterifed by St. Paul in his 
fecond Epiftle to the Theftalonians, ch. ii. Ha<> the right 
of private judgment, fays an excellent writer, been al¬ 
ways adopted and maintained, Antichrift could never have 
been; and, when the (acred right comes to bt univerfafly 
afferted, and men follow tiie voice of their own realbn arid 
confciences, Antichrift can be no more. 
ANTICHRIS'TIAN, adj. [from am, againft, and 
Gr.] Oppofite to Chriftianity.—That defpifed, 
abject, opp'refted, fort of men, the minifiers, whom the 
world would make antichrjlian , and to deprive them of 
heaven. South. 
ANTICHRI'STI ANISM, J. Oppofi-tion or contrariety 
to Chriftianity.—Have v»e not feen many, whole opinions 
have 
