a. [f. ANTIPOD-ES + -AL 1.]

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  1.  Of or pertaining to the antipodes; situated on the opposite side of the globe.

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1646.  Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., 306. The Americans are Antipodall unto the Indians.

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1831.  Carlyle, Sart. Res. (1858), 46. The antipodal New Holland.

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1877.  Shields, Final Philos., 168. The Irish St. Virgilius in the ninth century, dared to advocate the theory of antipodal races.

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  2.  transf. Diametrically opposite (to anything).

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1664.  H. More, Myst. Iniq., iv. 10. So horrid and diabolical and so antipodal to both the Person and Spirit of Christ.

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1846.  Hawthorne, Mosses, II. xii. (1864), 251. There was nothing so antipodal to his nature as this man’s cold, unimaginative sagacity.

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1874.  Blackie, Self-Cult., 70. Two such antipodal characters as Coleridge and Thomas Carlyle.

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