a. rare. [f. ANTI- 3 + Gr. βιωτικ-ός fit for life.] Opposed to a belief in the presence or possibility of life.
1860. Maury, Phys. Geog. Sea, xiv. 604. I incline to the antibiotic hypothesis.
1877. Sir C. W. Thomson, Voy. Challenger, I. i. 4. What was called the ‘antibiotic’ prejudice was in any degree overcome.
