[ad. L. antipathīa, a. Gr. ἀντιπάθεια, n. of state f. ἀντιπαθής opposed in feeling, f. ἀντί against + πάθος, πάθε-, feeling. Cf. Fr. antipathie, in Cotgr., 1611.]
† 1. Contrariety of feeling, disposition or nature (between persons or things); natural contrariety or incompatibility. The opposite of sympathy. Obs.
1601. Holland, Pliny (1634), II. 430. The repugnancie and contrariety in nature which the Greeks call antipathie.
1605. Shaks., Lear, II. ii. 93. No contraries hold more antipathy, Then I, and such a knaue.
1693. Bentley, Boyle Lect., 97. When occult quality, and sympathy and antipathy were admitted for satisfactory explications of things.
† b. Const. with a thing; between things. Obs.
1601. Holland, Pliny (1634), II. 227. Such a contrarietie in nature or Antipathie there is … between them and this herb.
1626. Bacon, Sylva, § 983. The Sea Hare hath an Antipathy with the Lungs … and erodeth them.
1655. Gurnall, Chr. in Arm., ix. § 2 (1669), 348/1. An Antipathy betwixt sinning and praying.
2. Feeling against, hostile feeling towards; constitutional or settled aversion or dislike.
1606. Warner, Alb. Eng., XIV. lxxxii. 344. Were other Rankes not free of Publique-weales Antipathie.
1663. Butler, Hud., I. I. 208. A Sect, whose chief Devotion lies In odd perverse Antipathies; In falling out with that or this.
1734. trans. Rollin’s Anc. Hist. (1827), I. 144. Mutual hatred and antipathy.
1853. C. Brontë, Villette, viii. (1876), 67. To attempt to touch her heart was the surest way to rouse her antipathy.
b. Const. against, to; between persons.
1618. Wither, Nec Habeo, Wks. 1633, 517. I no Antipathy (as yet) have had Twixt me and any Creature God hath made.
1667. Primatt, City & Count. Build., 28. A kind of Antipathy against the thriving of any but themselves.
1712. Addison, Spect., No. 440, ¶ 5. Having the same Natural Antipathy to a Pun, which some have to a Cat.
1858. Max Müller, Chips (1880), II. xxvii. 324. A mutual antipathy between the white and the black man.
3. concr. † a. That which is contrary in nature (obs.). b. The object of antipathy or settled dislike.
1622. Massinger & Dekker, Virg. Mart., IV. iii. To go Where all antipathies to comfort dwell.
1691. Norris, Pract. Disc., 205. Evil is the great antipathy of Human Nature … her great and general Abhorrence.
1777. Sheridan, Trip to Scarb., XI. i. Men that may be called the beau’s antipathy, for they agree in nothing but walking upon two legs.
