a. rare. [f. prec., on Gr. analogies; see -IC, -AL.] Of the nature of antiperistasis; contrary or in opposition to its surroundings, heightened by force of contrast.
1601. Cornwallyes, Ess., II. xlv. (1631), 247. For in reason and discourse … there is more then an Antiperistaticall Vertue.
1652. Urquhart, Jewel, Wks. 1834, 289. The antiperistatick faculty of a fountain or spring-well in the summer season, whose nature is to be the colder within itself the greater circumobresistance of heat be in the aire which surrounds it.
