What an antithetical mind!tenderness, roughnessdelicacy, coarseness sentiment, sensualitysoaring and grovellingdirt and deityall mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!"

The term "English," however, is so often used with sole reference to people and things in England as to have become in some measure antithetical to "American;" and when it is found desirable to include the two in a general expression, one often hears in America the term "Anglo-Saxon" colloquially employed for this purpose.

[104] The here in the preceding line means his book; hence the thy book is antithetical.

While it is true that the term "euphuism" has come to be applied to any stilted, antithetical style that pays more attention to the manner of expressing a thought than to its worth, we should remember that English prose style has advanced because some writers, like Lyly, emphasized the importance of artistic form.

As is also this antithetical comparison of the qualities of a war-horse to the mental affections of the rider: Bring me a steed, with eagle-wings for fight, Swift as my wish, and as my love is, strong.

Adj. vigorous, nervous, powerful, forcible, trenchant, incisive, impressive; sensational. spirited, lively, glowing, sparkling, racy, bold, slashing; pungent, piquant, full of point, pointed, pithy, antithetical; sententious.

Here is a striking contrast, in which extremes meet,not the martens' tails, but the two men's wives, the banker's and the trapper's, brought into antithetical relation by the simple circumstance of a fichu-russe, the material of which was worn in some ravine of the wilderness, mayhap not a twelvemonth since, by a creature faster even than a banker's wife.

But where beliefs are so directly antithetical as they are here, the repugnance and resistance which each is found to cause in so large a number of minds is in itself a proof that those laws and conditions are insufficiently complied with.

This procedure would be so absolutely antithetical to human knowing that it seems a wanton paradox on that account to treat it as the final goal of knowledge.

It means "he who finishes," who completes and perfects, and is antithetical to Ticci, he who begins.

It is a little too antithetical in the structure of its periods, too dogmatical in the announcement of its opinions.

Leibnitz he anticipated by his doctrine of the "monads," the individual, imperishable elements of the existent, in which matter and form, incorrectly divorced by Aristotle as though two antithetical principles, constitute one unity.

Freedom and (inner) necessity are identical; and antithetical, on the one side, to undetermined choice and, on the other, to (external) compulsion.

"I think the commercial and political interests of Maryland," he remarked, in his calm and simple, but distinct and watchful manner, manifesting, too, at the same time, a natural command of dignified, antithetical sentences, "would be promoted, perhaps can be only preserved, by secession.

He is often antithetical, but is a profound thinker.

Here, read and write are antithetical (that is, in contrast), and are accented, or emphasized.

Farquhar, the comic dramatist, wrote a letter containing a ludicrous account of the funeral; in which, as Mr. Malone most justly remarks, he only sought to amuse his fair correspondent by an assemblage of ludicrous and antithetical expressions and ideas, which, when accurately examined, express little more than the bustle and confusion which attends every funeral procession of uncommon splendour.

It has been often remarked that indignation makes a man witty; and as despair occasionally breaks out into laughter, it may sometimes also give vent to itself in antithetical comparisons.

Moreover, he is generally fond of heightening a series of ingenious and antithetical sayings by the use of rhyme.

The full title of this poem, in "Lyrical Ballads," 1800, is 'A Character, in the antithetical Manner'.

This superiority to nature, as it seems to me, this living in an element plainly antithetical to her sphere, is a sign of 'an ampler ether, a diviner air.'

such antithetical sort.

The genuine dramatic collision of antithetical forces produces, furthermore, a new synthesis, the effect of which is to make us wish morality less austere and the sense of obligation stronger than they at first are in two persons good by nature but caused to err by circumstances.

Therefore, it may be submitted, there was a certain discipline in the old antithetical couplet of Pope and his followers.

' Is it really so certain that he would go deeper into the matter than that old antithetical jingle goes?