a. [ad. assumed Gr. *ἀντιπαθητικός, f. ἀντιπαθέ-ειν to have an aversion (see next); cf. παθητικός f. παθέ-ειν.] Having an antipathy or constitutional aversion; opposed in nature or disposition (to).
1640. Canterbur. Self-Conv., 95. The Scots humour … is become naturally antipathetick to the masse.
1789. Bentham, Princ. Legisl., vi. § 35. Sympathetic and antipathetic sensibility are commonly stronger in her [the female].
1831. Arnold, in Stanley, Life (1858), I. 250. Many … are so antipathetic to it [cholera], that neither contagion nor infection will give it to them.
1865. Trollope, Belton Est., xxv. 296. The whole place and everything about it was antipathetic to her.
