Definition of Antetypes

1. antetype [n] - See also: antetype

Lexicographical Neighbors of Antetypes

anteroseptal myocardial infarction
anterosuperior
anteroventral
anteroventral thalamic nucleus
antes
antesepalous
antessive
antessive case
antestomach
antestomachs
antesystole
antetemple
antetemples
antetype
antetypes (current term)
anteversion
anteversions
antevert
anteverted
anteverting
anteverts
antevolate
anthacyclin
anthacyclins
anthanthrene
anthelia
anthelices
anthelion
anthelions

Literary usage of Antetypes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1871)
"... etc., the antetypes in Carboniferous times of the modern king crab." In agreeing, so far as we can judge from the figures, with this view, ..."

2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1868)
"... types and antetypes (with figures of prophets and messengers between them : a system which is only partially carried out in the Fairford glass. ..."

3. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1900)
"... never before endowed : and it is manifest, that if we can call ourselves antetypes of our grandmothers—can prophesy what we had for dinner yesterday, ..."

4. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"Puns, parodies, paradoxes, refrains, antitheses, alliterations, echoes and surprises of all sorts are there, with some curious antetypes of modern slang, ..."

5. Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology by Granville Stanley Hall (1904)
"We shall exalt Mohammed, Kung-tsi, Buddha, and scores of great ancient seekers after God in many lands, ways, tongues, and centuries, as antetypes, ..."

6. Northern Germany, as Far as the Bavarian and Austrian Frontiers: Handbook by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1893)
"Below are eight statues of representatives of the Old Testament and antetypes of Christ: to the left Daniel, the Queen of Sheba, Solomon, and St. John the ..."

7. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson. by Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Adgate Lipscomb, Albert Ellery Bergh (1905)
"... for war, II, 268; antetypes of Ruth and Boaz among, 269; mourning customs of women, 269; affection among, 270; reply to charge of lack of vivacity of, ..."

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