antiparallel

&. a. [Gr. ἀντί (anti) = against, and Eng. parallel. In Ger. anti parallel.] IMG:content-0589.png:[blocks in formation] DE:BC. FC::FB:BF:: DE: BC. (b) Leibnitz called any two lines antiparallel which cut two parallels so that the external angle and the internal one are together = a right angle. B. As adjective: Acting not in the same manner, but quite in the opposite direction; running in a contrary direction. "The only way for us, the succe ors of these ignorant Gentiles, to repair those ruins, to renew the image of God in ourselves, which their idolatrous ignorance defaced, must be to take the opposite course, and to provide our remedy anti - parallel to their disease."Hammond: Serm . , p. 646.