Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One that is foreshadowed by or identified with an earlier symbol or type, such as a figure in the New Testament who has a counterpart in the Old Testament.
- n. An opposite or contrasting type.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. That which is prefigured or represented by a type, and therefore is correlative with it; particularly, in theology, that which in the gospel is foreshadowed by and answers to some person, character, action, institution, or event in the Old Testament.
- n. In biology, same as antitrope.
Wiktionary
- n. Something that is symbolized or represented by a type.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. That of which the type is the pattern or representation; that which is represented by the type or symbol.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an opposite or contrasting type
- n. a person or thing represented or foreshadowed by a type or symbol; especially a figure in the Old Testament having a counterpart in the New Testament
Etymologies
- From Ancient Greek ἀντίτυπος (antitupos). (Wiktionary)
- Medieval Latin antitypus, from Late Greek antitupos, copy, antitype, from Greek, corresponding, representing : anti-, equal to, like; see anti- + tupos, print, impression. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The Old Testament figure was called the type and the figure in the New Testament which paralleled it was called the antitype.”
“As in the first verse the earthly sanctuary was measured, so here its heavenly antitype is laid open, and the antitype above to the ark of the covenant in the”
“The Baptist is Elias, as our Saviour was David; that is, the antitype, Jeremiah 30: 9; Malachi 4: 5; Hosea 3: 5, &c.”
“Noah's ark by water; and in like manner the antitype, which is the ordinance of consecration”
“The traditional depiction of Lilith from ancient Mesopotamia through medieval Kabbalah presents an antitype of desired human sexuality and family life.”
“Could the relationship of Lee and Starbuck be an antitype of Baltar and Six in the first season?”
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“It also consists in Edwards 'extension of typology, the practice of interpreting things, persons, or events (the “type”) as symbols or prefigurations of future realities (the “antitype”).”
“Protestant divines had tended to restrict typology to figures, actions, and objects in the Old Testament which in their view shadowed forth Christ as their antitype.”
“Pursue that thought, and we might have got an interesting work; instead Wills gives the reader 16 profiles, each one meant to exemplify a particular type of leadership, and each contrasted with an "antitype.”
“They are discreet, reticent, observant, and on many subjects well informed, but they are of a type which has no antitype at home.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘antitype’.
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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ADW1
obdurate, obstinate, behest, injunction, enjoin, circumspect, ensconce, discursive, lugubrious, doleful, somber, ken and 2476 more...
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use•ful
palmary, glossolalia, bothum, high-proof, synesthesia, odious, autochthonous, yawp, mordacious, dynamo, dishevel, titely and 414 more...
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Vocabulary of Lord Rahl
Master Rahl guide us.
Master Rahl teach us.
Master Rahl protect us.
In your light we thrive.
In your mercy we are sheltered.
In your wisdom we are humbled.
internecine, antipodal, poliorcetics, haruspex, hejira, conventicle, ultroneous, Myrmidon, epic, fantasy, empire, victory and 121 more...
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Old School Commentators
synecdoche, hyperbole, thresh, contrite, hendiadys, condescension, contrition, yieldedness, propitiation, chiliastic, synecdochically, proselyte and 65 more...
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