[Anticosti], a barren rocky island in the estuary of St Lawrence, frequented by fishermen, and with hardly a permanent inhabitant.
[Antig`one`], the daughter of Oedipus, king of Thebes, led about her father when he was blind and in exile, returned to Thebes on his death; was condemned to be buried alive for covering her brother's exposed body with earth in defiance of the prohibition of Creon, who had usurped the throne; Creon's son, out of love for her, killed himself on the spot where she was buried. She has been immortalised in one of the grandest tragedies of Sophocles.
[Antigone, The Modern], the Duchess of Angoulême, daughter of Louis XV. See the parting scene in [Carlyle's] "French Revolution."
[Antig`onus], surnamed the Cyclops or One-eyed, one of the generals of Alexander the Great, made himself master of all Asia Minor, excited the jealousy of his rivals; was defeated and slain at Ipsus, in Phrygia, 301 B.C.
[Antigonus], the last king of the Jews of the Asmonean dynasty; put to death in 77 B.C.
[Antigonus Gonatas], king of Macedonia, grandson of the preceding; twice deprived of his kingdom, but recovered it; attempted to prevent the formation of the Achæan League (275-240 B.C.).
[Antigua], one of the Leeward Islands, the seat of the government; the most productive of them belongs to Britain.
[Antilles], an archipelago curving round from N. America to S. America, and embracing the Caribbean Sea; the Greater A., on the N. of the sea, being Cuba, Hayti, Jamaica, and Porto Rico; and the Lesser A., on the E., forming the Leeward Islands, the Windward Islands, and the Venezuelan Islands—the Leeward as far as Dominica, the Windward as far as Trinidad, and the Venezuelan along the coast of S. America.
[Antimony], a brittle white metal, of value both in the arts and medicine.
[Antinomianism], the doctrine that the law is superseded in some sense or other by the all-sufficing, all-emancipating free spirit of Christ.