a state or quality in persons or principles which denominates them antichristian, or opposite to the kingdom of Christ. M. Jurieu takes the idea of the unity of the church to have been the source of Antichristianism. Had not mankind been infatuated with this, they would never have stood in such awe of the anathemas of Rome. It is on this that the popes erected their monarchical power.

ANTICHTHÔNÈS, in Ancient Geography, an appellation given to the inhabitants of opposite hemispheres.