a. and sb. [f. prec. + -AN.]
A. adj. Of or belonging to the opposite latitude.
1860. Maury, Phys. Geog. Sea, xx. § 818. The westerly winds which prevail on the polar side of 40° S. are stronger and more constant than their antœcian fellows of the north.
B. sb. pl. = ANTŒCI.
1796. Hutton, Math. Dict., I. 121/1. Antecians or Antœci … have their noon, or midnight, or any other hour at the same time; but their seasons are contrary, being spring to the one, when it is autumn with the other.
