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 Antitactæ 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.