verb. (old).—To go to the opposite extreme: cf. ‘to lord,’ ‘to tree,’ etc.
1647. WARD, The Simple Cobler of Aggawam in America, 45. If it [Majestas Imperii] extends it self beyond its due Artique at the one end, but Salus Populi must ANTARTIQUE IT as farre at the other end, or else the world will be Eccentrick, and then it will whirle.
