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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Same as antagonistic.
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- adj. Alternative form of antagonistic.
Examples
“A volume might be filled with literary judgments by him as antagonistical and inconsistent as the sharpest antitheses.”
International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850
“It must interpose likewise in the matter of industry, and exclude that antagonistical principle of competition -- the poisoned fount of so much virulence, violence and ruin.”
“These two antagonistical principles were at perpetual variance, it being the law of one to counteract whatever the other did.”
Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians
“From the first inroads of the whites upon what the Indians considered their lawful possessions, although by them unoccupied -- namely, the territory known as Kan-tuck-kee -- up to the year which opens our story, there had been scarcely any cessation of hostilities between the two races so antagonistical in their habits and principles.”
“Such she did feel; and thus between two human beings, as much antagonistical perhaps, in every particular, as Nature ever presented, was already established”
“Cibber's antagonistical views towards Pantomime were shared, as we shall see, by a good many others.”
“John Anderson my Jo,' 'The Last Rose of Summer,' and kindred airs, could always 'bring down the house,' no matter what the antagonistical musical attraction might be.”
The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2
“It is because monarchy was beginning to be odious in the eyes of the European democracy, when contrasted with our antagonistical system of the divine right of the people.”
“If our information be entirely correct in regard to the political tendencies and Fremont bias of this professor, ought he not to be "required to leave", at least dismissed from a situation where his poisonous influence is so powerful, and his teachings so antagonistical to the "honor and safety" of the University and the State?”
“By these tests we plainly understand the “flesh” to be antagonistical to the Spirit.”
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