Search for crossword answers and clues
A person or thing represented or foreshadowed by a type or symbol
Answer for the clue "A person or thing represented or foreshadowed by a type or symbol ", 8 letters:
antitype
Alternative clues for the word antitype
Word definitions for antitype in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also anti-type , 1610s, from Greek antitypos "corresponding in form," literally "struck back, responding as an impression to a die," from anti- (see anti- ) + typos "a blow, mark" (see type (n.)).
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Antitype is a genus of moths of the Noctuidae family. The scientific name is derived from the Greek antitupos (something that returns). Hübner probably referred to similarities with a genus which was described earlier, probably Polymixis .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. 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 an opposite or contrasting type [ant: type ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Antitype \An"ti*type\, 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.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Something that is symbolized or represented by a type.
Usage examples of antitype.
May not the type be beloved for the sake of its Antitype, even if the very name of All-Father is no guarantee for His paternal pity!
They are discreet, reticent, observant, and on many subjects well informed, but they are of a type which has no antitype at home.
She was the antitype of many a modern English young lady, for she can only be negatively described.
They are not only clumsy and childish designs ill executed, but they are rendered unintelligible to all save the initiated in such hieroglyphics, by offering an elaborate ground-work of type, antitype, and symbol, on which the artist probably spent a large part of his strength.
And just as the bow that spans the mantling cloud reminds us of all beautiful things that glow around its antitype that spans the emerald throne on high, so, as we gaze upon the prismatic tints that are reflected from the oily surface, we dream of all that is beautiful in color and gorgeous in tinted radiance, as being hidden amid the elements of petroleum.
A vision of his antitype, the Cowes Philanderer, crossed me for a second.
All-seeing Eye be the centre of many concentric circles, beholding equally in perspective the circumference of each, and for accordance with human periods of time measuring off segments by converging radii: separately marked on each segment of the wheel within wheel, in the way of actual fulfilment, as well as type and antitype, will appear its satisfied word of prophecy, shining onward yet as it becomes more and more final, until time is melted in eternity.
Moreover, the idea of the chosen bishops and deacons as the antitypes of the Priests and Levites, had been formed at an early period in connection with the idea of the new sacrifice.