sb. pl. [L., a. Gr. ἄντοικοι dwellers opposite, f. ἀντί opposite to + -οικος -dwelling.] The dwellers under the same meridian, on opposite sides of the equator, and at the same distance from it.
1622. Heylin, Cosmogr., Introd. (1674), 20/1. Antœci are such as dwell under the same Meridian and the same Latitude or Parallel equally distant from the Æquator; the one northward, the other Southward; the days in both places being of a length; but the Summer of the one being the others winter.
1684. T. Burnet, Th. Earth, I. 255. Antichthones … comprehend both the antipodes and antœci, or all beyond the line.
1796. [See ANTŒCIAN].
