anti christianity

[Gr. ἀrí (anti) = against; Eng. Christianity.] Opposition or contrariety to Christianity in an individual, a party, or a speculative tenet. (In use identical with the previous word.) "They breed grief of mind in a number that are godly-minded, and have Anti christianity in such detestation, that their minds are martyred with the very sight of them in the Church."--Hooker Eccl . Pol ., bk. iv., § 3. " Anticipated rents, and bills unpaid, Force many a shining youth into the shade." Cowper: Retirement. (2) the first movements of the body in infancy; (3) Rhet ., occupation, prolepsis: from anti- cipo = to anticipate.] A. Ord. Lang. The act of anticipating; the thing anticipated. "If we really live under the hope of future happi- ne , we shall taste it by way of anticipation and fore- thought; an image of it will meet our minds often, and stay there, as all pleasing expectations do."- Atterbury . "But whose achievements, marvellous as they be, Are faint anticipations of a glory About to be revealed." 6. Music: The obtrusion of a chord upon a syncopated note to which it forms a discord. ( Busby .) ăn-tiç'-i-pā-tive, a . [Eng. anticipate ; -ive.] Anticipating, containing an anticipation. (S. T. Cole ridge.) (a) In a speech or literary composition, to say or write anything before the time or place ăn-tic-i-pa-tor, s. "The dinner served, Charles takes his usual stand, Watches your eye, anticipates command." Cowper : Truth. would have done wisely as well as rightly by anticipating the wishes of the country."- Масаи lay: Hist. Eng . , ch. xxi. O: dan active and anticipating intelligence."- Owen: Cla if. Mammal i a, ăn-tiç'-i-pā-tor-ý, a. [Eng. anticipator ; -y.] Anticipating, foreseeing, forecasting; containing or implying an anticipation of some future event. and this distinguished geologist concluded by the remarkable anticipatory observation that ."-Owen: British Fo il Mammals and Birds (1846), p. 2. ăn-ti-cli-mạx, s. [Gr. ἀντί ( anti ) = opposite to, or the opposite of; and κλίμαξ ( klimax ) = a ladder or staircase IMG:content-0585.jpg:[graphic][merged small] ăn-tic-lỹ, * ăn'-tick-lý, adv . [Eng. antic ; -ly .] Like an antic, after the manner of an antick. "Scrambling, out-facing, fashion-mongring boys, That lye, and cog, and flout, deprave and slander, Go an tickly , and shew an outward hideousne , And speak off half-a-dozen dangerous words.' Shakesp.: Much Ado About Nothing , v. L *ăn'-tic-mask. Another spelling of ANTI- MASK, as if from Eng. ANTIC (q. v.). ăn-tic-nē-mi-on, s. [Gr. ἀντικνήμιον (απ- tiknēmion) = the shin, the leg: ἀντί (anti) = against, and κνήμη (knēmē) = the part of the leg between the knee and ankle; the leg.] Anatomy: The bone of the shin. A port of humourous antick ne in carriage, Discourse, demeanour, gestures." Ford: Fancies, iv. 2. (Richardson.) ăn-ti-col-ic, a. [Gr. ἀντί ( anti ) = against, κωλικός ( kõlikos ) = suffering in the κῶλον ( kōlon ), having the colic.] Deemed of use against colic. Rhet. The opposite of a climax. As in a climax the ideas increase in grandeur as the sentence advances, so in the anti-climax they sink lower and lower as the sentence proceeds. The effect in the former case is sublime; in the latter, ridiculous. The example of an anti-climax most frequently given (and there could scarcely be a better one) is the follow- ing:- "Next comes Dalhou ie, the great god of war, Lieutenant-col'nel to the earl of Mar." IMG:content-0586.png:[blocks in formation] ăn-ti-con-sti-tu-tion-al-ist, s. [Gr. ἀντί ( anti ) against; Eng. constitutional , -ist.] 1. One opposed to the constitution of the country, or opposed to sound constitutional principles. ( Webster .) 242