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antiperistases

antiperistases is the plural of antiperistasis.

Meaning of antiperistasis

Noun

antiperistasis (usually uncountable, plural antiperistases)

  1. (usually) The heightening of the force of an opposing process.
    • The poore people in Corinth did ſee, and ſmell, vvhat the rich men taſted, Tantalizing all the vvhile, and having their penury doubled by the Antiperiſtaſis of others plenty; yea, ryot and exceſſe, for ſome of them vvere drunken.1640, Thomas Fuller, “A Comment on 1 Cor. II. 20. 21.”, in Ioseph’s Partie-coloured Coat: Containing, a Comment on Part of the II. Chapter of the I. Epistle of S. Paul to the Corinthians. […]...

Questions about antiperistases

What is antiperistases the plural of?
Antiperistases is the plural of antiperistasis.

Words near antiperistases in the dictionary

  1. antiperiplanar
  2. antiperistalses
  3. antiperistalsis
  4. antiperistaltic
  5. antiperistaltics
  6. antiperistases
  7. antiperistasis
  8. antiperistatic
  9. antiperistatical
  10. antipermeability
  11. antipernicious

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