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A product of gastric and pancreatic digestion, differing from hemipeptone in not being decomposed by the continued action of pancreatic juice.

A remedy possessing the property of preventing the return of periodic paroxysms, or exacerbations, of disease, as in intermittent fevers.

Opposed to, or checking motion; acting upward; -- applied to an inverted action of the intestinal tube.

Opposition by which the quality opposed asquires strength; resistance or reaction roused by opposition or by the action of an opposite principle or quality.

Pertaining to antiperistasis.

Standing before a petal, as a stamen.

Antidotal; alexipharmic.

An opposer of the theory of phlogiston.

Opposed to the doctrine of phlogiston.

A musical response; alternate singing or chanting. See Antiphony, and Antiphone.

Of or pertaining to antiphony, or alternate singing; sung alternately by a divided choir or opposite choirs. Wheatly. -- An*tiph"o*nal*ly, adv.

A book containing a collection of antiphons; the book in which the antiphons of the breviary, with their musical notes, are contained.

The response which one side of the choir makes to the other in a chant; alternate chanting or signing.

A book of antiphons. Chaucer.

Antiphonal.

A musical response; also, antiphonal chanting or signing.

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 antiphrasis. -- An`ti*phras"tic*al*ly, adv.

Relieving or curing phthisis, or consumption. -- n.

Contrary to nature; unnatural.