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antitypous

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English

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Etymology

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From anti- + Ancient Greek τύπος (túpos, a blow) + -ous.

Adjective

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antitypous (comparative more antitypous, superlative most antitypous)

  1. (obsolete) resistant to blows; hard
    • 1678, R[alph] Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: [] Richard Royston, [], →OCLC:
      Essentially antitypous ; one magnitude joined to another always standing without it , and making the whole so much bigger

References

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antitypous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.