antipous
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antipodes
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀντίπους (antípous).
Senses: examples: text: Far and wide is the difference between hydrencephalus and peripneumony. Peripneumony is a disease not to be mistaken, evident to the feelings, palpable to the senses, destitute of all uncertainty:—Hydrencephalus is the antipous to these, is surrounded with mystery, and its very existence never undeniably determined but by dissection.
ref: 1826 April, James Johnson, editor, The Medico-Chirurgical Review, London: […] G. Hayden, […] Burgess & Hill, […], page 443:
text: Another cause of non-union is one the very antipous of too much motion, viz. too little.
ref: 1830 March, James Johnson, editor, The Medico-Chirurgical Review, and Journal of Practical Medicine, London: […] S. Highley, […], page 412:
text: Brethren, we must not view one side of man (though I digress) without seeing the other; let us see him not by himself, he may be a rustic-boor, chop-stick, serf, drudge, dirty, ragged, illiterate, vulgar; but, he may be at the same time one of Jesus’ chosen, a stone of the temple, a lord of eternity, one who will judge angels; his antipous here, (the delicate walker above) will also be his antipous hereafter, he will be his servant. (Mat. xxiii. 11. xix. 30.)
ref: 1836, J. Filmer Emmett, “Tekel;” or, A Warning to the Spiritual Israel of the Present Day, Setting Forth Their False and Unscriptural Position; Also, the Only Path by Which They Can Return unto the Lord Their God, London: […] [F]or the Author by Ebenezer Palmer and Son, […], page 115:
text: Priessnitz has got a rival close to his own castle! About four miles from Graffenberg, in the lovely valley of Lindiviesse, Dr. Schrott, an old school-fellow of the apostle of hydropathy, has started a cure-all, in opposition to the Silesian peasant. His methodus medendi is no vile imitation of that of the far-famed practitioner of Graeffenberg. It is a veritable antipous.
ref: 1844, Daniel Drake, Lunsford P[itts] Yandell, Thomas W. Colescott, editors, The Western Journal of Medicine and Surgery, Louisville, Ky.: […] Prentice & Weissinger, […], page 176:
text: He was forsooth a great Arithmetician, / Had all the Ready Reckoner at command, / And, having been a sort of Sub-Physician, / Now came to cast the water of the Land, / Which he pronounced in a most vile condition, / So bad in fact ’twas clear things could not stand; / The antipous of Leibnitz, still his song / Ran ever thus, ‘Whatever is is wrong.’
ref: a. 1846, Richard Harris Barham, “The Relic; or The Antiquary and the Patriot. A Canterbury Tale, Founded on Fact.”, in [Richard Harris Dalton Barham], editor, The Life and Letters of the Rev. Richard Harris Barham, Author of The Ingoldsby Legends: with a Selection from His Miscellaneous Poems, volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], published 1870, page 235:
text: Its immediate motive cause was the sentiment of ‘now or never’ aroused by Whitgift’s policy of repression after his acceptance of the Primacy in 1583; its intellectual parentage may be ascribed to Cartwright, the antipous of Whitgift in the religious history of the reign.
ref: 1899, Adolphus William Ward, A History of English Dramatic Literature to the Death of Queen Anne, London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, page 463:
text: ‘It is absurd to deny that in the universe there is one part up and another down, as some claim; they say that there is no one part up and another down because the universe is uniform in every direction, and every person walking will at every point be his own antipous.’
ref: 2006, Apeiron, volume 39, page 355:
glosses: singular of antipodes; synonym of antipode.