Helen Fenton

Antisocial: Definition and part of speech

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Antisocial

  1. a. Tending to interrupt or destroy social intercourse; averse to society, or hostile to its existence; as, antisocial principles.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Antispasmodic: Definition and part of speech

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Antispasmodic

  1. n. A medicine which prevents or allays spasms or convulsions.
  2. a. Good against spasms.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Antispast: Definition and part of speech

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Antispast

  1. n. A foot of four syllables, the first and fourth short, and the second and third long (#).

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Antispastic: Definition and part of speech

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Antispastic

  1. n. An antispastic agent.
  2. a. Believed to cause a revulsion of fluids or of humors from one part to another.
  3. a. Counteracting spasms; antispasmodic.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Antistrophe: Definition and part of speech

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Antistrophe

  1. n. The retort or turning of an adversary’s plea against him.
  2. n. In Greek choruses and dances, the returning of the chorus, exactly answering to a previous strophe or movement from right to left. Hence: The lines of this part of the choral song.
  3. n. The repetition of words in an inverse order; as, the master of the servant and the servant of the master.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.