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antiˈthetical, a.
[f. prec. + -al1.]
1. Connected with, containing, or using antithesis.
1583T. Watson Poems (1870) 116 The whole piller..is by relation of either halfe to the other Antitheticall or Antisillabicall. 1795Mason Church Music iii. 179 Parallel antithetical expressions, are..substituted for Rhythm and cadence. 1853Robertson Sermons Ser. iv. ix. (1876) 112 The whole context is antithetical. Ideas are opposed to each other in pairs of contraries.
2. Characterized by direct opposition.
1848Miller First Impressions xvii. (1857) 283 To bring Revelation in direct antithetical collison with the inferences of the geologists. 1860Tyndall Glaciers ii. §26. 372 Each of the snowy bands..contributed to produce an appearance perfectly antithetical to its own. |
