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ˌantiperiˈstatic, -al, a. rare.
[f. prec., on Gr. analogies; see -ic, -al1.]
Of the nature of antiperistasis; contrary or in opposition to its surroundings, heightened by force of contrast.
1601Cornwallyes Ess. ii. xlv. (1631) 247 For in reason and discourse..there is more then an Antiperistaticall Vertue. 1652Urquhart Jewel Wks. 1834, 289 The antiperistatick faculty of a fountain or spring-well in the summer season, whose nature is to be the colder within itself the greater circumobresistance of heat be in the aire which surrounds it. |