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have fattened upon one another the brand of antichrijlian- 
ifm? Decay of Piety. 
ANTICHRISTI A'NITY,y. Contrary to Chriftianity. 
ANTICIIRIS'TI ANS, J. are more particularly thofe 
who fet up or believe a falle Chrift, or Meiliah. 
ANTI'CFIRONISM, f. againft, and Gr. 
time.] Deviation from the right order or account of time. 
ANTICHTHO'NES, f. in ancient geography, an ap¬ 
pellation given to the inhabitants of oppofite hemifpheres. 
To ANTICIPATE, v. a. [ anticipo , I_at.] To take 
fomething fooncr than another, lb as to prevent him that 
comes after; to take firtt polfelfion.—Gob hath taken care 
to anticipate and prevent every man, to dtaw him early in¬ 
to his church; to give piety the prepoliellion, and lb to 
engage him in holinefs. Hammond. —To take up before the 
time at which any thing might be regularly had.— I find 
1 have anticipated already, and taken up from Boccace, be¬ 
fore I come to him; but I am of the temper of kings, who 
are for prefent money, no matter how they pay it. Dry- 
den. —To foretafte, or take an imprettion of fomething, 
which is not yet, as if it really was.—The life of the def- 
perate equals the anxiety of death, who but aft the life 
of die damned, and anticipate the deflations of hell. 
Drown. 
Why ttiould we 
Anticipate our forrows; ’tis like thofe 
That die for fear of death. Denham. 
To prevent any thing by crowding in before it; to pre¬ 
clude.—I am far from pretending to inttruft the profefiion, 
or anticipating their directions to fuch as are under their 
government. Aibuthnot. 
ANTICIPATION, f. The aft of taking up fomething 
before its time.—It is not enough to be miferable when 
the time comes, unlefs we make ourfelves fo beforehand, 
and by emlicipation. DEJhange. —Foretafte.—If we really 
live under the hope of future happinels, we (hall tafte it 
byway of anticipation and forethought; an image of it 
will meet our minds often, and flay there, as all pleafing 
expectations do. Atterbury. —Opinion implanted before the 
reafons of that opinion can be know n.—The eaft and weft, 
the north and fouth, have the fame anticipation concerning 
one fupreme difpofer of things. Stilling fleet. —What nation 
is there, that, w ithout any teaching, have not a kind of 
anticipation, or pre-conceived notion, of a Deity ? Derham. 
ANITCIPANS.yi The Greeks exprefs this by 
TOi© j ; it isapplied to difeafes whofe lucceeding paroxyfms 
anticipate the time of the preceding fit, that is, each of 
vvhofe fits begins lomewhat fooner titan the preceding. If 
the catamenia arrive before their ordinary period, they 
are laid to anticipate. 
ANTICLE'A, the mother of Ulyfles. It is faid that 
file was ravilhed by Sifyphus, and was pregnant of Ulylfes 
when (lie married Laertes ; and that Ille killed herlelf when 
Ihe heard a fulfe report of her Ion’s death. 
ANTICLI'MAX, f. [from am and xXig.af, Gr.] A 
fentence in which the lall part exprelfes fomething lower 
than the firtt.—A certain figure, w hich was unknown to 
the ancients, is called by fome an anticlimax. Addifon. — 
This dittich is frequently mentioned as an example: 
Next comes Dalhouftey, the great god of war, 
Lieutenant col'nel to the earl of Mar. 
AN'TICLY, adv. In an antic manner; with odd pof- 
tures; wild gefticulations, or fanciful appearance: 
Scrambling, out-facing, fafliion-mongring, boys, 
That lye, and cog, and flout, deprave, and Hander, 
Go anticly , and (hew an outward hideoufnefs, 
And fpeak of half a dozen dangerous words. Shakefpeare. 
ANTICONVUL'SIVE, adj. [from am, Gr. againft, 
and convvlfive .] Good againtt convullions.—Whatfoever 
produces an inflammatory difpofition in the blood, produ¬ 
ces the afthma, as anticonvu/fve medicines. Flayer. 
ANTI'COR,/! [from am, Gr. againtt, and cor , Lat, the 
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heart.] A preternatural (welling of around figure, occa- 
fioned by a fanguinc and bilious humour, and appearing in 
a horfe’s bread, oppofite to his heart. An anticor may 
kill a horfe, unlefs it be brought to a fuppuration by good 
remedies. 
ANTICOS'TE, a barren ittand lying in the mouth of 
the river St. Laurence, in North America. Lat. 11011149° 
t0 53°N. 1011.64. 16. W. 
ANTICOUR'TIER, f. [from am, Gr. againtt, and 
courtier .] One that oppoles the court. 
AN 1 ICY'RA, anciently a town of Phocis, on the Co- 
rintliian bay, oppofite to Cirrha. The Phcceans feizing 
the temple of Apollo at Delphi, a war, called the fac.rcd, 
commenced, and kitted ten years; when Philip, father of 
Alexander the Great, avenged the god by deftroying many 
of the cities of the pillagers. Anticyra was one of the 
number. It was again taken and fubverted by Antilius a 
Roman general in the war with the Macedonians. It af¬ 
terwards became famous for its hellebore. That drug 
was the chief produce of the rocky mountains above the 
city, and of two kinds ; the black, which had a purgative 
quality ; and the white, which was an emetic. Sick per- 
ibns relorted to Anticyra to take the medicine, which was 
prepared there by a peculiar and very excellent recipe: 
hence the adage, Naviget Anticyram. By the port was a 
temple of Neptune, built with felefted ftones, and the 
inlide white-waflied; the ttatue of brafs. The walls and 
other edifices at Anticyra were probably erected, like the 
temple of Neptune, with (tones or pebbles. The lite is 
now called AJprofpitia, or the “white houles;” and fome 
traces of the buildings from which it was fo named re¬ 
main. The port is land-locked, and frequented by veftels 
for corn. 
ANTIDES'MA, f. [am, pro, and vinculum', 
excellent for making ropes.] In botany, a genus of the 
dioecia pentandria clafs. The generic characters are— 
I. Male. Calyx : perianthium five-leaved ; leaflets ob- 
longilh, concave. Stamina: filaments five, capillary, long¬ 
er than the calyx, equal; antherae roundifh, femibifid. II. 
Female. Calyx: as in the male, permanent. Piftillum: 
germ fuperior, ovate; flyle none; Itigmas five, obtufe. 
Pericarpium : drupe rotindiih, oue-celled, crowned with 
the Itigmas, and having a furrowed tttell. Seed: none.— 
EJcntiaL CharaEler. Male. Calyx, five-leaved ; corolla, 
none; antherae, femibifid. Female. Calyx, five-leaved ; 
corolla, none; (tigmas, five; berry cylindric, one-feetled. 
Species. 1. Antidefma alexiteria. It is a middle-fized 
tree, with leaves refembling thole of the lemon. Flowers- 
in racemes. Fruit red, and acid like the barberry. Com¬ 
mon in Malabar, is an evergreen, and continues to bear 
fruit to the age of feventy years ; the fruit is elteemed for 
its pleafant cooling qualities. A decoction of the leaves 
is reputed to be an antidote againft the bite of ferpents. 
The bark is ufed for making ropes. 
2. Antidefma acida : leaves obovate, fpikes folitary. A 
native of the Eaft Indies. 
3. Antidefma fcandens: leaves palmate ferrate, Item 
climbing. Native of China near Canton. 
ANTIDICOM A'RIANITES, ancient heretics, who 
pretended that the holy virgin did not preferve a perpetual 
virginity, but that (lie had feveral children by Jofeph after 
our Saviour’s birth. Their opinion was grounded on fome 
exprefiions of our Saviour, wherein he mentions his bro¬ 
thers and his lifters; and of St. Matthew, where he fays, 
that Jofeph knew not Mary till (he had brought forth her 
firft-born fon. The Antidicomarianites were difciples of 
Helvidius and Jovinian, who appeared in Rome toward 
the clofe of the fourth century. 
ANTIDPNICA,/. [from am, againtt, and cir¬ 
cumgyration.] Medicines againft a vertigo. 
ANTlDO'KON,y! a name given by the Greeks to the 
confecrated bread, out of which the middle part, marked 
with the crofs, wherein the confecration refides, being ta¬ 
ken away by the prieft, the remainder is diftributed after 
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