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PRONUNCIATION OF ANTIPERISTASIS

antiperistasis  [ˌæntɪˌperɪˈstælsɪs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ANTIPERISTASIS

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Antiperistasis is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ANTIPERISTASIS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

antiperistasis

Antiperistasis

Antiperistasis, in philosophy, is a general term for various processes, real or contrived, in which one quality heightens the force of another, opposing, quality. Historically, this explanation was applied to numerous phenomena, from the interaction of quicklime with cold water, to the origin of thunder and lightning. The term is Greek, ἀντιπερίστασις, formed of ἀντί and περίστασις, and hence resistance to anything that surrounds or besets another. It was using this explanation that academic philosophers claimed that cold, on many occasions, increases a body's temperature, and dryness increases its moisture. Thus, it was said, quicklime was apparently set ablaze when doused with cold water. It was also the understood reason for why water, such as that in wells, appeared warmer in winter than in summer. It was also suggested that thunder and lightning were the results of antiperistasis caused by the coldness of the sky. Peripatetic philosophers, those followers of Aristotle, made extensive use of the principle of antiperistasis.

Definition of antiperistasis in the English dictionary

The definition of antiperistasis in the dictionary is a real or imagined process in which one part increases the force of an opposing part.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ANTIPERISTASIS


analysis
əˈnælɪsɪs
antiperistalsis
ˌæntɪˌpɛrɪˈstælsɪs
axis
ˈæksɪs
basis
ˈbeɪsɪs
Chalcis
ˈkælsɪs
crisis
ˈkraɪsɪs
diagnosis
ˌdaɪəɡˈnəʊsɪs
diastalsis
ˌdaɪəˈstælsɪs
emphasis
ˈɛmfəsɪs
Francis
ˈfrɑːnsɪs
genesis
ˈdʒɛnɪsɪs
Isis
ˈaɪsɪs
necrosis
nɛˈkrəʊsɪs
oasis
əʊˈeɪsɪs
peristalsis
ˌpɛrɪˈstælsɪs
praxis
ˈpræksɪs
sarcoidosis
ˌsɑːkɔɪdˈəʊsɪs
sis
sɪs
synthesis
ˈsɪnθɪsɪs
thesis
ˈθiːsɪs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ANTIPERISTASIS

antipathetic
antipathetical
antipathetically
antipathic
antipathies
antipathist
antipathy
antiperiodic
antiperistalsis
antiperistaltic
antipersonnel
antiperspirant
antipesticide
antipetalous
antiphlogistic
antiphon
antiphonal
antiphonally
antiphonaries
antiphonary

WORDS THAT END LIKE ANTIPERISTASIS

anastasis
apocatastasis
atelectasis
bacteriostasis
bronchiectasis
cholestasis
diastasis
ectasis
entasis
epistasis
haemostasis
hemostasis
homeostasis
homoeostasis
hypostasis
iconostasis
metastasis
protasis
psoriasis
stasis
telangiectasis

Synonyms and antonyms of antiperistasis in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about antiperistasis

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ANTIPERISTASIS»

Discover the use of antiperistasis in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to antiperistasis and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Retrospectives: Essays in Literature, Poetics and Cultural ...
It increases heat by antiperistasis, as it is called, that is to say by the contrary action of the surrounding air, which, being cold, retains and thus increases and fortifies our warmth on the inside. But phlegm is increased because the cold ...
Terence Cave, Neil Kenny, Wes Williams, 2009
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Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt: Philosophie ...
IV 4, 382 a 12 sgg. e parla precisamente di un' antiperistasis dell'aria: ,,1'acqua e 1'aria, sebbene siano cedevoli al tatto, non sono molli: cedono infatti perche dividendosi si spostano intorno (TO> dvujtepu<Tr(ra0ai) e non perche la loro ...
Wolfgang Haase, 1987
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New Philosophy of Human Nature: Neither Known to nor ...
The opposite happens in antiperistasis,6 where living heat comes and goes [and] can be present or absent. For example, [antiperistasis occurs] in the macrocosm in wells and in underground caves and in a cloud where through compression ...
Mary Ellen Waithe, 2007
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Certain Philosophical Questions: Newton's Trinity Notebook
In the first place, Newton will later give a detailed analysis of the difficulties he supposes are involved in antiperistasis in his entry "Of Violent Motion." There he argues for the need to posit real causes to account for real effects in nature, and for ...
J. E. McGuire, Martin Tamny, 2003
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But an antiperistasis makes all things to move and be at the same time moved ; and consequently likewise to rest. Now, however, one certain thing appears to be continually moved. By what therefore ? for it is not moved by itself s. But since ...
Aristotle, 1806
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The Works ... to which is Prefixed the Life of the Author. A ...
designed men should not be able to contradict the doctrine of Antiperistasis, without contradicting more than one of their own senses, she has taken care, that oftentimes the water, that is freshly drawn "out of the deeper sorts of wells and ...
Robert I Boyle, 1772
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New Light on William Harvey
Harvey,. Aristotle. and. Mediaeval. Revisionism. (Impetus. Theory). -. Antiperistasis. and. Its. Limitations. —. The. Contraries. Harvey found himself at variance with the Master in the very matter of impetus. For this implied communication of force ...
Walter Pagel, 1976
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Structure and Method in Aristotle's Meteorologica: A More ...
The fact of the paradox itself persuaded Aristotle that he needed a cause of inversions, antiperistasis, specifically the descent, encircling, and compression of the cool, upper, wet air mass by the warm lower air. Indeed he had just used ...
Malcolm Wilson, 2013
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Translations of the philosophical works
To the action of dilatation by embracing is opposed that of contraction by flight and antiperistasis. For as bodies open themselves on every side to such as are pleasant and friendlyto them, and advance to meet them, so when they fall in with  ...
Francis Bacon, James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, 1864
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Translations of the ...
To the action of dilatation by embracing is opposed that of contraction by flight and antiperistasis. For as bodies open themselves on every side to such as are pleasant and friendly to them, and advance to meet them, so when they fall in with ...
Francis Bacon, James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, 1858

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