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antipathetic, a.|æntɪpəˈθɛtɪk| [ad. assumed Gr. *ἀντιπαθητικός, f. ἀντιπαθέ-ειν to have an aversion (see next); cf. παθητικός f. παθέ-ειν.] Having an antipathy or constitutional aversion; opposed in nature or disposition (to).
1640Canterbur. Self-Conv. 95 The Scots humour..is become naturally antipathetick to the masse. 1789Bentham Princ. Legisl. vi. §35 Sympathetic and antipathetic sensibility are commonly stronger in her [the female]. 1831Arnold in Stanley Life (1858) I. 250 Many..are so antipathetic to it [cholera], that neither contagion nor infection will give it to them. 1865Trollope Belton Est. xxv. 296 The whole place and everything about it was antipathetic to her. |