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antipathy|ænˈtɪpəθɪ|
[ad. L. antipathīa, a. Gr. ἀντιπάθεια, n. of state f. ἀντιπαθής opposed in feeling, f. ἀντί against + πάθος, πάθε-, feeling. Cf. Fr. antipathie, in Cotgr. 1611.]
†1. Contrariety of feeling, disposition, or nature (between persons or things); natural contrariety or incompatibility. The opposite of sympathy. Obs.
1601Holland Pliny (1634) II. 430 The repugnancie and contrariety in nature which the Greeks call antipathie. 1605Shakes. Lear ii. ii. 93 No contraries hold more antipathy, Then I, and such a knaue. 1692Bentley Boyle Lect. 97 When occult quality, and sympathy and antipathy were admitted for satisfactory explications of things.
†b. Const. with a thing; between things. Obs.
1601Holland Pliny (1634) II. 227 Such a contrarietie in nature or Antipathie there is..between them and this herb. 1626Bacon Sylva §983 The Sea Hare hath an Antipathy with the Lungs.. and erodeth them. 1655W. Gurnall Chr. in Arm. ix. §2 (1669) 348/1 An Antipathy betwixt sinning and praying.
2. Feeling against, hostile feeling towards; constitutional or settled aversion or dislike.
1606Warner Alb. Eng. xiv. lxxxii. 344 Were other Rankes not free of Publique-weales Antipathie. 1663Butler Hud. i. i. 208 A Sect, whose chief Devotion lies In odd perverse Antipathies; In falling out with that or this. 1734tr. Rollin's Anc. Hist. (1827) I. 144 Mutual hatred and antipathy. 1853C. Brontë Villette viii. (1876) 67 To attempt to touch her heart was the surest way to rouse her antipathy.
b. Const. against, to; between persons.
1618Wither Nec Habeo Wks. 1633, 517, I no Antipathy (as yet) have had Twixt me and any Creature God hath made. 1667Primatt City & Count. Build. 28 A kind of Antipathy against the thriving of any but themselves. 1712Addison Spect. No. 440 ⁋5 Having the same Natural Antipathy to a Pun, which some have to a Cat. 1858Max Müller Chips (1880) II. xxvii. 324 A mutual antipathy between the white and the black man.
3. concr.
†a. That which is contrary in nature (obs.).
b. The object of antipathy or settled dislike.
1622Massinger & Dekker Virg. Mart. iv. iii, To go Where all antipathies to comfort dwell. 1691Norris Pract. Disc. 205 Evil is the great antipathy of Human Nature..her great and general Abhorrence. 1777Sheridan Trip to Scarb. xi. i, Men that may be called the beau's antipathy, for they agree in nothing but walking upon two legs. |