[ANTI- 1.] He who or that which is opposed to God. Hence b. A rival deity; c. An evil demon or devil.
1684. Charnock, Attrib. God (1834), II. 567. It may be called the spirit of anti-god.
1685. Baxter, Paraphr. 1 John ii. 18. It is not antichrist properly but the anti-god, the Roman Idolatrous Emperor.
1720. Waterland, 8 Serm., 145. All Rival, or Anti-Gods, set up in opposition to God.
1856. R. Vaughan, Mystics (1860), I. III. iv. 81. The malignant Dæmons, the Anti-gods (ἀντιθέους).