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Antitype definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

AN'TITYPE, n. [Gr. against, and a type, or pattern.]
A figure corresponding to another figure; that of which the type is the pattern or representation. Thus the paschal lamb, in scripture, is the type of which Christ is the antitype. An antitype then, is something which is formed according to a model or pattern, and bearing strong features of resemblance to it.
In the Greek liturgy, the sacramental bread and wine are called antitypes, that is, figures, similitudes; and the Greek fathers used the word in a like sense.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a person or thing represented or foreshadowed by a type or symbol; especially a figure in the Old Testament having a counterpart in the New Testament
2: an opposite or contrasting type [ant: type]

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 that which is represented by a type or symbol. 2 a person or thing of the opposite type. Derivatives: antitypical adj. Etymology: Gk antitupos corresponding as an impression to the die (as ANTI-, tupos stamp)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Antitype An"ti*type (-t[imac]p), n. [Gr. ? of corresponding form; ? against + ? type, figure. See Type.] That of which the type is the pattern or representation; that which is represented by the type or symbol.

Moby Thesaurus

antetype, archetype, biotype, classic example, criterion, epitome, fugleman, fugler, genotype, imitatee, lead, mirror, model, original, paradigm, pattern, precedent, prototype, representative, rule, standard, type, type species, type specimen, urtext