antiperistasis (antiperistasis)

[NL., περίστασις, a standing around), All that I fear is Cynthia's presence, which, with the cold of her chastity, casteth such an antiperistasis about the place, that no heat of thine will tarry with the patient. B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, v. 3. 2. In rhet., a figure consisting in granting what an opponent states as fact, but denying his inference therefrom. anti anti per i static (anti-per-i-stat'ik), a. [ anti pestilential (anti-pes-ti-len's hal), a. [ ML. antiphonarium, Great, it contained whatever was sung antiphonally in the ma and offices of the Latin Church. liturgical antiphons, however, that is, those proper to the ma , have long been published in a separate book called the gradual. The responsories of the office were also anciently published by themselves in the responsorial, but now, along with the antiphons proper, that is, those a ociated with the psalms of the office, make up the present antiphonary. II. a. Antiphonal. Great attention seems to have been paid to the antipho nary songs. A. W. Ward , Eng. Dram. Lit., I. 21. anti phone, n. See antiphon . antiphonert (an-tif'ō-nėr), n . [ antiphon ere (also anfenare, amfenare ), antiphonary .] A book of anthems or antiphons; an antiphonary. He Alma Red empt or is herde synge, As children lerned her antiphon ere . Chaucer, Priore 's Tale, 1. 67.