Antipathic
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Characterized by antipathy.
- 2 Directly counteracting a symptom or pathological process.
"The source of all these pernicious results of palliative antipathic treatment, and the salutary effects proceeding from the reverse method, the homœopathic, will be sufficiently explained in the following observations which are drawn from experience and a number of facts that have hitherto escaped the notice of every one save myself, although they were immediately before the view, perfectly evident in their nature, and of the deepest importance to the medical art."
Example
More examples"The source of all these pernicious results of palliative antipathic treatment, and the salutary effects proceeding from the reverse method, the homœopathic, will be sufficiently explained in the following observations which are drawn from experience and a number of facts that have hitherto escaped the notice of every one save myself, although they were immediately before the view, perfectly evident in their nature, and of the deepest importance to the medical art."
Etymology
From French antipathique. By surface analysis, anti- + -pathic.
Perhaps independently from anti- + -pathic, after German antipatisch.
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