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1694 W. Cowper Μυοτομια Reformata xxxiii. 199 This..Antagonizeth the Precedent by turning the Foot and Toes outwards in that Position of the Leg as before Noted.

1759 M. Flemyng Introd. Physiol. xiii. 179 The reason is, the muscles on the opposite side, that antagonise those that are bending the trunk towards one side, are so much stretched, that they become, as it were, paralytic, and lose their power.

1840 Penny Cycl. XVI. 65/1 These fibres..have a constant tendency to antagonize the adductor muscle.

1860 G. H. Lewes Physiol. Common Life II. x. 280 The body is balanced by an incessant shifting of the muscles, one group antagonising the other.

1936 Amer. Jrnl. Surg. 34 201/2 The anterior one-half of the vocal cords are adducted by the lateral cricoarytenoids, antagonized by the posterior cricoarytenoids.

1968 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 170 166 The anterior adductor muscle antagonizes the action of the accessory ventral adductor.

2003 S. Vogel Compar. Biomechanics xxiii. 465 The triceps, then, operating as part of a first-class lever, antagonizes the biceps.

1833 J. F. W. Herschel Astronomy viii. 285 Perpetual contest between conservative and destructive powers..so antagonizing one another as to prevent the latter from ever acquiring an uncontrollable ascendancy.

1860 R. W. Emerson Fate in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 19 If Fate follows and limits power, power attends and antagonizes Fate.

1915 J. J. Putnam Human Motives i. 15 These conditions of existence..antagonize the influence of the spirit which is immanent in all men and which keeps alive in them an ideal of brotherhood.

1974 Air Quality & Automobile Emission Control (U.S. Nat. Acad. Engin.) I. 73 Indifference, the effect produced by combination equals the effect of the single most active component; other components do not add to, enhance, or antagonize the effect of the most active component.

2011 M. M. Hurley et al. Inside Jokes xii. 257 Emotions interfere with one another when they have an opposite valence, but even here, they don't simply antagonize each other, and a state of negative affect can actually pave the way for a heightened appreciation of humor.

1854 Assoc. Med. Jrnl. 9 June 509/2 We were anxious to ascertain..whether opium and belladonna—or their respective active principles, morphia and atropin—would uniformly and in all circumstances antagonise, or act as antidotes to, each other.

1872 Trans. Royal Soc. Edinb. 25 581 The chief objects of the two first of these were to ascertain the maximum dose of physostigma that can be successfully antagonised by atropia, and the range of doses of atropia that can successfully antagonise lethal doses of physostigma.

1906 W. E. Dixon Man. Pharmacol. xxxii. 438 Physostigmine..is..antagonised by the atropine group of drugs.

1949 H. W. Florey et al. Antibiotics II. xxi. 812 Glutathione and thiothreonine antagonized the anti-bacterial action of penicillin.

1969 Times 7 July 5/7 Drugs known to have an effect in reducing inflammation, presumably because they antagonize various of the substances released in the lungs.

2008 Sci. Amer. (U.K. ed.) Nov. 59/2 It is now apparent that other cellular proteins—or cellular restrictions, as they are termed—actually antagonize viral replication.

1707 J. Drake Anthropol. Nova II. iv. 686 The two extremes antagonising, the middle is only at liberty.

1800 J. Reeves Thoughts Eng. Govt. IV. 42 The three powers [sc. the King, Lords, and Commons] do not antagonise, but are supposed to move in different, yet crossing lines, so as to strike the machine of Government and impel it in a direction compounded of all the three.

1861 R. T. Hulme tr. C. H. Moquin-Tandon Elements Med. Zool. ii. vi. i. 318 These organs..act from above downwards, but without antagonizing [Fr. sans antagonisme].

1894 J. Schouler in J. Hawthorne et al. United States VI. xx. 205 Congress..expressly abnegated its rights of guardianship and left freedom and slavery to antagonize to the end.

2011 J. A. Byrd Transit of Empire i. 30 Žižek's discussion of how ontological and dialectical differences antagonize and oscillate between viewing locations in the gap of the Real.

1798 in A. Young Ann. Agric. 30 472 Terms of dealing sufficiently advantageous to the customer. This property antagonizes with, and forms the limit of, the more important property of solidity [sc. that of being proof against the causes of failure].

1833 Weekly Visitor 19 Nov. 418/1 To render this organ [sc. the trunk of an elephant] yet more perfect, it is armed at its extremity with a kind of muscular finger, antagonizing against the division, or wall of partition, between the two canals.

1871 A. J. Davis Fountain (ed. 3) 76 Arminianism may antagonize with Arianism.

1913 Musical Times 54 758/1 Typewriting may develop certain muscles at the expense of others in a way that antagonizes with the proper development of an organist's or pianist's hand.

2009 P. Tertzakian & K. Hollihan End of Energy Obesity ii. viii. 133 Seeking to solve the problem by going bottom-up from emissions..doesn't necessarily mitigate the urgency of our prosperity and security issues; in fact, in some cases, it can actually antagonize against them.

1742 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Antagonize, to act the Part of an Opponent in arguing, to oppose, to contradict.

1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. To Antagonize, to contend against another.

1818 J. Keats Endymion iii. 131 Like one huge Python Antagonizing Boreas.

1865 D. Masson Recent Brit. Philos. 48 A so-called Scottish Philosophy of Common Sense to antagonize all this mass of English and imported Sensationalism.

1874 Biogr. Encycl. Pennsylvania 19th Cent. 55/2 The other [party] antagonized him because he was opposed to the Bank of the United States upon constitutional grounds.

2001 D. N. Chorafas Integrating ERP, CRM, Supply Chain Managem., & Smart Materials ii. viii. 144 Their only hope to survive is greater efficiency, which capitalizes on universal visibility of information rather than antagonizing the wave of change.

1849 R. S. Foster Objections to Calvinism as it Is viii. 246 Is the view we have antagonized true or false?

1860 Congr. Globe 5 Apr. 1550/3 So far as I know, there is no disposition among Senators on this side to antagonize this bill with the favorite project of the friends of the homestead bill.

1891 Daily News 20 Oct. 3/5 You recently permitted me to offer some comments on a letter addressed to you by Mrs..Snoad, in which I antagonised her views.

1904 L. O. Brastow Repr. Mod. Preachers 148 He antagonized theology and denied the rational possibility of it.

1972 Kenya Nat. Assembly Official Rec. 13 July 968/2 This Bill is very important and I think it is a very good thing that the Attorney-General has agreed to compromise with the House, and we should try to do everything possible to ensure that the Bill is not antagonized.