antipodic (antipodik)

Same as antipodal. anti pod i cal (an-ti-pod'i-kal), a. [ Nor are the inhabitants of the Anti pod i cal Paradise le worthy of our admiration. Blackwood's Mag ., XXII. 602. an tip odism (an-tip'ō-dizm), n. [ antipode + -ism.] The state of being antipodal. an tip odist (an-tip'ō-dist), n. [ antipode + -ist.) A believer in the antipodes, at the time when such belief was heresy, on account of the orthodox supposition that the whole surface of the earth was a flat expanse. Some have maintained that the an tip odist [Virgil, bishop of Salzburg] was a different person from the canonized bishop. Prof. De Morgan , N. and Q., 6th ser., XII. 53. anti point (an'ti-point), n. [ anti- + point .] One of a pair of foci, real or imaginary, to a plane curve, so related to another pair that if a quadrilateral be drawn having the two foci of each pair at opposite angles, the opposite sides will meet at the circular points at infinity, and consequently be tangent to the curve.