.774 ANT 
a form of fpeech. ] The life of words in a fenfe oppoiite 
to their proper meaning.—You now find no caufe to re¬ 
pent, that you never dipt your hands in tire bloody high 
courts of juftice, fo called only by antiphrafis. South. 
ANTIPH'.THrSlCS,yi [from n, againft, and ipOicic, 
a kind of confumption. ] Remedies againft a confumption. 
ANTIPHTHO'RA, f. [from «kti, againft, and (pSoja, 
corruption.] A fpeties of wolf’s-bane, which reiifts cor¬ 
ruption. 
ANTIPHY'SICS, f. [from am, againft, and (pvo-ua } 
to blow.] Remedies againft wind. 
ANTIPLEURI'TICS, J. [am, againft, and 
apleurify.] A remedy againft a pleurify. 
ANTJ'PODAL, adj. Relating to the countries inha¬ 
bited by the antipodes.—The Americans are antipodal un¬ 
to the Indians. Brozon. 
ANTJ'PODES,y. [from am, againft, and feet.] 
Thofe people who, living on the other fide of the globe, 
have their feet direftly oppoiite to ours. It has no lingular: 
So fhines the fun, though hence remov’d, as clear, 
When his beams warm th’ antipodes, as here. Waller. 
Antipodes, in geography, are the inhabitants of two 
places on the earth which lie diametrically oppoiite to each 
other, or that walk feet to feet; that is, if a line be con- 
linued down from our feet, quite through the centre of 
the earth, till it arrive at the furface on the other fide, it 
will fall on the feet of our antipodes, and vice verfa. Anti¬ 
podes are 180 degrees diftant from each other every way 
on the furface of the globe ; they have equal latitudes, 
the one north and the other fouth, but they differ by 180 
degrees of longitude : they have therefore the fame cli¬ 
mates or degrees of-heat and cold, with the fame feafons 
and length of days and nights ; but all of thefe at contrary 
times, it being day to the one when it is night to the 
other; fummer to the one, when it is winter to the other, 
<&c. they have alfo the fame horizon, the one being as far 
■diftant on the one fide as the other on the other fide ; and 
therefore, when the fun, &c. rifes to the one, it lets to 
the other. The antipodes to London are a part a little S. 
of New Zealand. It has been faid that Plato firft ftarted 
the notion of antipodes, and gave them the name ; which 
is likely enough, as he conceived that the earth was of a 
globular figure : but there have been great difputes upon 
this point, and the fathers of the church have greatly op- 
pofed it, efpecially Ladlantius and Auguftine, who laugh¬ 
ed at it, and were greatly perplexed tothink'how men and 
trees fliould hang pendulous in the air with their feet upper- 
moft, as he thought they muft do in the other hemifphere. 
ANTI'POLIS, now Antibes, on the coaft of Pro¬ 
vence, a colony of the Maflilians, near the river Verus, 
ia Gallia Narbonenfis, three leagues to the weft of Nice. 
Lat. 43. 40. Ion. 7. o. E. 
AN'TIPOPE, y. [from anti, againft, and pope.~\ He 
that ufurps the popedom, in oppofition to the right pope. 
—This houfe is famous in luftory, for the retreat of an 
antipope, who calls himfelf Felix V. Addijon. 
ANTIP'TOSIS, y [arnTriwc-i?, of am, againft, or for, 
and ttLc-i;, a cafe, Gr. ] Medicines which temper and al¬ 
lay too much heat in fevers, as acids do; alfo a figure in 
grammar, when one cafe is put for another. 
ANTIQUA'RE, f. among Roman lawyers, properly 
denotes the rejecting of a new law', or refilling to pal’s it. 
I n which fenfe, antiquating differs from abrogating ; as the 
latter imports the annulling an old law, the former the 
rejecting a new one. Antiquare is alfo ufed for a law’s 
growing obfolete, or into difufe, either by age or non- 
cbfervarice. 
ANTIQUA'RII, /. a name given to copiers of old 
books. After the decline of learning amongft the Romans, 
and when many religious houfes were erected, learning was 
chiefly in the'hands of the clergy ; the greateft number of 
whom were regulars, and lived in monafteries. In thefe 
houfes were many iudiiftrious men, who were continually 
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employed in making new copies of old books, either for 
the ule of the monaftery, or for their own emolument, 
Thefe writing monks were diftinguifhed by the name of 
antiquarii. They deprived the poor librarii, or common 
feriptores, of great part of their bufinefs, fo that thefe 
found it difficult to gain a fubfiftence for themfelves and 
families. This put them upon finding out more expedi¬ 
tious methods of tranferibing books. 1 hey formed the let¬ 
ters fmaller, and made ule of more jugations and abbre¬ 
viations than had been ufiial. They proceeded in this 
manner till the letters became exceedingly fmall ; the ab¬ 
breviations W'ere very numerous, and extremely difficult 
to be read. This in fome meafure accounts for the great 
variety of hands in the fpecies of writing called Modem 
Gothic. When a number of copies were to be made of the 
fame work, it was ufual to employ feveral perfons at the 
fame time in writing it; each perfon, except him who wrote 
the firft fkin, began where his affiftant was to leave off. 
AN'TIQUARY, J. [ antiquarius, Lat.] A man (tudious 
of antiquity ; a collector of ancient things.—All arts, rari¬ 
ties, and inventions, are but the reliefs of an intelledf de¬ 
faced with fin. We admire it now, only as antiquaries do 
a piece of old coin, for the (lamp it once bore. South. In 
the chief cities of Greece and Italy, there were perfons of 
diftiniflion called antiquaries, whole bufinefs it was to fliew 
ftrangers the antiquities of the place, to explain the anci¬ 
ent inferiptions, and to give them all the affiftance they 
could in this way of learning. Paufanias calls thefe anti¬ 
quaries V.^r,yr,Tcti. The Sicilians call them myjlogogi. There 
was an ancient college of antiquaries erecled in Ireland by 
Ollamh Fodhla, 700 years before Chrift, for compofing a 
hiftorv of that country : and to this, fay the Iriffi hifto- 
rians, it is owing, that the hiftories and antiquities of that 
kingdom may be traced back beyond thofe of moll other 
nations. There is a fociety of antiquaries in London, and 
another in Edinburgh, incorporated by the king’s charter, 
Henry VIII. gave John Leland the title of his antiquary; 
a title which, fays the author of his life, no body ever en¬ 
joyed befides himfelf. The kings of Sweden have been 
at great expence to illufirate the antiquity of their coun¬ 
try, having eftablilhed an academy of antiquaries with this 
lingle view. The office of the ancient Irifli antiquaries 
was to preferve the genealogies of the kings of Ireland, to 
correffi; the regal tables of fuccelilon, and deliver down the 
pedigree of every collateral branch of the royal family. 
To AN'TIQUATE, v. a. [antique, Lat.] To put out 
of ule ; to make obfolete_Milton’s Paradife Loft is ad¬ 
mirable. But cannot I admire the height of his inven¬ 
tion, and the ftrength of his expreflion, without defending 
his antiquated words, and the perpetual harftmefs of their 
found ? Drydcn. 
AN'TIQUATEDNESS, f. The date of being anti¬ 
quated, worn out of ufe, or obfolete. 
ANTI'QUE, adj. [antique , Fr. antiqims, Lat. It was 
formerly pronounced according to the Englifti analogy, 
with the accent on the firft Lyliable ; but now after the 
French, with the accent on the laft, at leaft in profe; the 
poets ufe it varioufly.] Ancient; old; not modern: 
Such truth in love as th’ antique world did know, 
In fuch a ftyle as courts may boaft of now. Waller. 
Of genuine antiquity.—The feals which we have remain¬ 
ing of Julius Caefar, which we know to be antique, have 
the (bar of Venus over them. Dry den. Of old faftiion. 
Odd ; wild ; antic : 
And fooner may a gulling weather-fpy, 
By drawing forth heav’n’s fcheme, tell certainly 
What fafliion’d hats, or ruffs, or fuits, next year 
Our giddy-headed antique youth will wear. Donn.e. 
Anti'ctue ,f. An antiquity ; a remain of ancient times; 
an ancient rarity.—I leave to Edward, now earl of Ox¬ 
ford, my feal of Julius Caefar ; as alfo another feal, fup- 
pofed to be a young Hercules ; both very choice antiques , 
and fet in gold. Swift. 
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