v. ? Obs. rare. [f. ANTIPATH-Y + -IZE: the opposite of sympathize.]
1. intr. To feel the opposite; to show contrariety of feeling or disposition.
c. 1633. T. Adams, Wks. (1862), III. 157 (D.). That which antipathises against one thing sympathiseth with another.
1657. T. May, Satyr. Puppy, 18. Being moved to antipathize … by my presuming insolence.
2. trans. To render antipathetic, to affect with contrariety or hostility of feeling.
1667. Waterhouse, Fire of Lond., 55. For had God antipathized and severed their conjunction, they had not done that complicated mischief they did.
1788. J. Williams, Childr. Thespis (1792), 115. As venomous reptiles antipathized gaze.
