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ANTI-CHRIST 192 ANTIGONUS dation of the Divinity and is condemned in Scripture. But when the only anthro- pomorphism is the use of metaphorical phrases, such as the arm of the Lord (Ps. Ixxvii: 15), or His eyes (Ps. xi: 4), of His ears (Ps. xxxiv: 15), to make ab- stract ideas more readily conceivable, the practice has the countenance of Scrip- ture itself. ANTI-CHRIST, anyone who denies the Father and the Son; or who will not confess that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh, or who, leaving the Church, pretends to be the Christ (or Messiah), and thus becomes a rival and enemy of Jesus, the true Christ. In a special sense one who should pre- eminently stand forth as the antagonist of Christ, and should be a sufficiently prominent personage to become the theme of prophecy; or if anti be held to mean instead of, then the characteristic of Anti- christ will be a supercession of Christ, not an avowed antagonism to Him. ANTICLINAL LINE or AXIS, in geol- ogy, the ridge of a wavelike curve made by a series of superimposed strata, the strata dipping from it on either side as from the ridge of a house: a synclinal line runs along the trough of such a wave. ANTICOSTI, an island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, which it divides into two channels, with lighthouses at different parts of the coast, and about 140 miles long, and 30 miles broad in the center. Area, 3,147 square miles. Anticosti has two harbors, Ellice bay, near the W. end, and Fox bay in the N. W. The climate is severe; while the surface is an alternation of rocks and swamps. It is visited by fishermen in the summer, but there are hardly any inhabitants save lighthouse keepers and a few offi- cials. The island, which is attached to the Canadian province of Quebec, has considerable salmon, trout, cod, and her- ring fisheries, and is a resort for seal and bear hunting. Extensive peat depos- its are found in Anticosti. Marl also occurs. M. Henri Menier, a French manufacturer, purchased the island in 1895 as a game preserve. Pop. about 250. ANTIETAM, a small river in Penn- sylvania and Maryland which empties into the Potomac six miles N. of Har- per's Ferry. On Sept. 16 and 17, 1862, a battle was fought on its banks near Sharpsburg, between the Federal army of about 80,000 men, under General Mc- Clellan, and a Confederate army vari- ously reported at from 40,000 to 97,000 men, under General Lee. The Federal casualties aggregated 12,469, and the Confederate about 11,000. General Lee recrossed the Potomac on the followmg day, and the general consensus is that the battle was tactically indecisive. ANTIFEBRIN, acetanilid (CsH.NO), an aniline derived from acetate of ani- line at an elevated temperature by a dia- lytic action in which water is set free. It has been employed with excellent re- sults as a pain-reliever in neuralgic and rheumatic affections, as a sedative febrifuge and antipyretic. ANTI-FEDERALISTS, members of a political party, in the United States, which opposed the adoption and ratifica- tion of the constitution, and failing in this, strongly favored the strict construc- tion of it. The strengthening of the Na- tional Government at the expense of the States was also opposed. Soon after the close of Washington's first administra- tion (1793) the name of Anti-Federal went out of use, the term Republican, and afterward Democratic-Republican and Non-Democratic, alone taking its place. ANTIFRICTION METAL, a name given to various alloys of tin, zinc, cop- per, antimony, lead, etc., which oppose little resistance to motion, with great resistance to the effects of friction, so far as concerns the wearing away of the surfaces of contact. Babbitt's metal (50 parts tin, 5 antimony, 1 copper) is one of them. ANTIGO, a city of Wisconsin, in Lang- lade CO. It is on the Chicago and North- western railroad and on Spring Brook river. It is the center of an impor- tant agricultural and lumbering region and has important industries, including the manufacture of wooden ware, flour mills, sawmills, wagon works, etc. It has a teachers' training school, a school for the blind, and a Carnegie library. Pop. (1910) 7,196; (1920) 8,451. ANTIGONE (an-tig'o-ne), in Greek mythology, the daughter of CEdipus and Jocasta, celebrated for her devotion to her father and to her brother Polynices, for burying whom against the decree of King Creon she suffered death. She is heroine of Sophocles' "OEdipus at Col- onus" and his "Antigone"; also of Ra- cine's tragedy, *'The Hostile Brothers." ANTIGONUS (an-tig'o-nus) , one of the generals of Alexander the Great, born about 382 B. C. After the death of Alex- ander, Antigonus obtained Greater Phry- gia. Lycia, and Pamphylia as his domin- ion. Ptolemy, Cassander, and Lysi- machus, alarmed by his ambition, united