in Grammar, a figure by which two things mutually depending on one another, are reciprocally converted; as, the servant of the master, the master of the servant.

among Lyric Poets, that part of a song and dance in use among the ancients, which was performed before the altar, in returning from west to east; in opposition to strophe. See Strophe and Ode.

ANTITACTÆ, in Church History, a branch of Gnostics, who held, that God was good and just, but antithesis that a creature had created evil; and consequently that it is our duty to oppose this author of evil, in order to avenge God of his adversary.