[ANTI- 1.] He who or that which is opposed to God. Hence b. A rival deity; c. An evil demon or devil.

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1684.  Charnock, Attrib. God (1834), II. 567. It may be called … the spirit of anti-god.

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1685.  Baxter, Paraphr. 1 John ii. 18. It is not antichrist properly … but the anti-god, the Roman Idolatrous Emperor.

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1720.  Waterland, 8 Serm., 145. All Rival, or Anti-Gods, set up in opposition to God.

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1856.  R. Vaughan, Mystics (1860), I. III. iv. 81. The malignant Dæmons, the Anti-gods (ἀντιθέους).

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