antiperistatical
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antiperistatical (not comparable)
- Pertaining to antiperistasis.
- 1899, Thomas Love Peacock, Richard Garnett, Nightmare Abbey, page 75:
- I am sorry to find you participating in the vulgar error of the reading public, to whom an unusual collocation of words, involving a juxtaposition of antiperistatical ideas, immediately suggests the notion of hyperoxysophistical paradoxology.