Antitragus

[ Gr.anti, and Lat. tragus, q. v.] ( Anat.) An eminence of the outer ear, opposite to the tragus. Anti-trinita'rians, n. pl. (Eccl. Hist.) The name given to all who do not receive the doctrine of the divine Trinity, as it is represented by the Nicene and A than asian creeds, and either put the Son and the Holy Spirit in the Godhead below the Father, or consider Christ merely a man, and the Holy Spirit an arbitrary personification of the divine mind. In the early period of the Christian church, parties maintaining these sentiments were very numerous, especially the Arians, Sabellians, and Pneuma to mac hists. The name Anti - Trinitarian first arose in the 16th century, and was applied to Socinians, or Unitarians, who remonstrated against the system of Episcopius, who died in 1613, and to a great number of theologians, who ventured in their writings to maintain the preceding opinion. Many were unwilling to acknowledge Anti-trinitarians as Christians, esteeming them enemies to the fundamental doctrines of Christianity; or even to tolerate them in Christian States. The Spanish Protestant, Michael Servetus, was burned at Geneva, in 1553, at the instigation of Calvin, on account of this heresy, and the severest edicts were once i ued against them in England. An English clergyman, however, Theophilus Lindsay, at London, in 1774, and a merchant, William Christie, at Montrose, in Scotland, formed Unitarian congregations, who separated themselves from the established Church, since which time they have become numerous, both in England and America. See UNITARIANS. Anti trop ous, and Antitropal, a . [Gr. anti , opposite, and trepo , to turn.] ( Bot . ) Applied to the embryo which has the radicle pointing away from the hilum. An'titype, n. [Gr. anti , and typos , a type.] ( Theol .) That which answers to, or is shadowed out by a type or emblem: that of which the type is the pattern or prefiguration; -so, the Paschal Lamb was a type , to which our Saviour, the Lamb of God, was the antitype . Antityp'ical, a. Pertaining to an antitype; explaining the type. Antitypically, adv . By way of antitype. An'tium, a maritime town of Italy, built upon a promontory, 32 miles from Ostium. It was the capital of the Volscii. Camillus took it, and carried all the beaks of its ships to Rome, and placed them in the Forum on a tribunal, which thence was called Rostrum, The Emperor Nero was born here. Antiva'ri, a town of Turkey-in-Europe, 19 m. W. of Scutari; annexed to Monte negro in 1878. Population about 4,000.