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The use of words in a sense opposite to their proper meaning; as when a court of justice is called a court of vengeance.

Pertaining to the antipodes; situated on the opposite side of the globe.

One of the antipodes; anything exactly opposite. In tale or history your beggar is ever the just antipode to your king. Lamb.

Pertaining to the antipodes, or the opposite side of the world; antipodal.

Those who live on the side of the globe diametrically opposite.

The opposite pole; anything diametrically opposed. Geo. Eliot.

One who is elected, or claims to be, pope in opposition to the pope canonically chosen; esp. applied to those popes who resided at Avignon during the Great Schism.

he earth, living on different sides of the equator, whose shadows at noon are cast in opposite directions. The inhabitants of the north and south temperate zones are always Antiscians. Brande & C.

Opposition to slavery.

Opposite to the sun; -- said of the point in the heavens 180º distant from the sun.

An opposition or contrast of words or sentiments occurring in the same sentence; as, "The prodigal robs his heir; the miser robs himself." "He had covertly shot at Cromwell; he how openly aimed at the Queen."

Pertaining to antithesis, or opposition of words and sentiments; containing, or of the nature of, antithesis; contrasted.

A prominence on the lower posterior portion of the concha of the external ear, opposite the tragus. See Ear.

Opposition or resistance of matter to force. [R.] Sir W. Hamilton.

Opposition to vaccination. London Times.

Opposition to vivisection.

Preventing fermentation or decomposition. -- n.

Those who live under the same meridian, but on opposite parallels of latitude, north and south of the equator.

A word of opposite meaning; a counterterm; -- used as a correlative of synonym. [R.] C. J. Smith.

Pertaining to, or situated in, the region of the front of the orbit. -- n.