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- Antetype - find the meaning, anagrams and hook words with antetype and much more. Definition of antetype. The word antetype uses 8 letters: a, e, e, n, p, t, t, y. Antetype is playable in: Words With Friends 14. Hook words of antetype. These are words formed by appending one letter to antetype.
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from The Century Dictionary.
Definition of Antetype. An earlier form n -S Lexicographical Neighbors of Antetype. Anteroposteriorly anteroseptal myocardial infarction anterosuperior anteroventral anteroventral thalamic nucleus antes antesepalous antessive antessive case antestomach: antestomachs antesystole antetemple antetemples antetype (current term) antetypes. Reevo 360 Virtual Tour.
- noun A prototype; a primitive or early type whence some later form has been derived. See
antitype .
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Examples
- In this doomed world, no type can find its antetype.
- If [this] law be true, it follows that the natural series of affinities will also represent the order in which the several species came into existence, each one having had for its immediate antetype a clearly allied species existing at the time of its origin ....
- Free from the athletics and the slang, she is antetype, indeed, of, say, the St. Andrews girl, that admirable creation of our age; but she soars beyond her sister on the wings of her more exquisite sensibility, and her deeper restfulness.
- We thus see how difficult it is to determine in every case whether a given relation is an analogy or an affinity, for it is evident that as we go back along the parallel or divergent series, towards the common antetype, the analogy which existed between the two groups becomes an affinity ....
- If two or more species have been independently formed on the plan of a common antetype, then the series of affinities will be compound, and can only be represented by a forked or many-branched line ....
- In the long series of changes the earth had undergone, the process of peopling it with organic beings had been continually going on, and whenever any of the higher groups had become nearly or quite extinct, the lower forms which better resisted the modified physical conditions served as the antetype on which to found new races.
- In the long series of changes the earth had undergone, the process of peopling it with organic beings had been continually going on, and whenever any of the higher groups had become nearly or quite extinct, the lower forms which better resisted the modified physical conditions served as the antetype on which to found new races.
- If [this] law be true, it follows that the natural series of affinities will also represent the order in which the several species came into existence, each one having had for its immediate antetype a clearly allied species existing at the time of its origin ....
- If two or more species have been independently formed on the plan of a common antetype, then the series of affinities will be compound, and can only be represented by a forked or many-branched line ....
- We thus see how difficult it is to determine in every case whether a given relation is an analogy or an affinity, for it is evident that as we go back along the parallel or divergent series, towards the common antetype, the analogy which existed between the two groups becomes an affinity ....
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