antiperistasis

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments (1)  · 
“
Th 'antiperistasis of age

View all »
Definitions (3)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (2)

  1. Antagonism of natural qualities, as of light and darkness, heat and cold; specifically, opposition of contrary qualities by which one or both are intensified, or the intensification so produced. Thus, sensible heat is excited in quicklime by immersing it in cold water, and cold applied to the human body may, by reaction, increase its heat. All that I fear is Cynthia's presence, which, with the cold of her chastity, casteth such an antiperistasis about the place, that no heat of thine will tarry with the patient. B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, v. 3.
  2. In rhetoric, a figure consisting in granting what an opponent states as fact, but denying his inference therefrom.

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (1)

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (9)

  • This is that accursed antiperistasis(189) that is made by the concurrence of some advantages of knowledge and civility, and such like The blood of enmity against God gets in about the heart, when it is chased for fear out of the outward man, therefore, the very first and fundamental principle of Christianity, is, “Let a man deny himself, and so he shall be my disciple.” He must become a fool in his own eyes, though he be wise, that he may be wise (1 Cor. —  The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
  • Th 'antiperistasis of age —  Lives of the English Poets : Waller, Milton, Cowley
  • In circuitu ambulant impij; honest by antiperistasis. —  Bacon is Shake-Speare
  • The surrounding ignorance and wickedness of the world might cause a holy antiperistasis(194) in a Christian, by making the grace of God unite itself, and work more powerfully, as fire out of a cloud, and shine more brightly, as a torch in the darkness of the night As for you, whose woful estate is here described, who are yet in the flesh, and enemies to God by nature, I would desire you to be stirred up at the consideration of this, that there are some who are delivered out of that prison, and that some have made peace with God, and are no more enemies but friends, and fellow citizens of the saints. —  The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
  • This is that accursed antiperistasis (189) that is made by the concurrence of some advantages of knowledge and civility, and such like. —  The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
More examples »
 

Tags

antiperistasis hasn't been tagged yet.

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 6 times.

stop updating
On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Etymologies (1)

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (1)

  1. New Latin, from Greek ἀντιπερίστασ, σ1ις, a surrounding so as to compress, a reciprocal replacement, from ἀντιπεριίστασ, σ1θαι, surround, compass, from ἀντί, against, + περιίστασ, σ1θαι, περιστῆναι, stand around (later περίστασ, σ1ις, a standing around), from περί, around, + ἱ(στασ, σ1θαι, στῆναι, stand.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »

If you'd like to prod us on getting a pronunciation for this word, sign in (or sign up) and let us know.

Charts
frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

We are still working on calculating this word's frequency.

Recently looked up

festering · Lamentation · baster · snuck · circumlocution

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

unicycle hockey · droopy drawers · turducken · cuddlefish · cuttlefish