a. [ANTI- 3.]

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  1.  Opposed to sociality, averse to society or companionship.

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1797.  J. Lawrence, in Month. Mag., XLVI. 113. Fanatical prejudices, antisocial antipathies and hatred.

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  2.  Opposed to the principles on which society is constituted.

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1849.  Grote, Greece, II. lxvii. VI. 84. Doctrines openly and avowedly anti-social.

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1862.  Merivale, Rom. Emp. (1865), VIII. lxv. 149. The earliest charge against the believers was that of perverse and antisocial usages.

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