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antiperistatical

antiperistatical adjective: pertaining to antiperistasis.

Adjective

antiperistatical (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to antiperistasis.
    • I am sorry to find you participating in the vulgar error of the reading public, to whom an unusual collocation of words, involving a juxtaposition of antiperistatical ideas, immediately suggests the notion of hyperoxysophistical paradoxology.1899, Thomas Love Peacock, Richard Garnett, Nightmare Abbey, page 75

Questions about antiperistatical

What does antiperistatical mean?
Antiperistatical means pertaining to antiperistasis.
What part of speech is antiperistatical?
Antiperistatical is an adjective.

Words near antiperistatical in the dictionary

  1. antiperistaltic
  2. antiperistaltics
  3. antiperistases
  4. antiperistasis
  5. antiperistatic
  6. antiperistatical
  7. antipermeability
  8. antipernicious
  9. antiperovskite
  10. antiperovskites
  11. antiperoxidant

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