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Antiperistasis
Antiperistasis An`ti*pe*ris"ta*sis, n. [Gr. ?; ? against + ? a standing around, fr. ? to stand around; ? around + ? to stand.] Opposition by which the quality opposed asquires strength; resistance or reaction roused by opposition or by the action of an opposite principle or quality.

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- Peristasis (Ancient Gr****: περίστασις "standing around") may refer to: Peristasis (architecture) Peristasis, inactive phases of vasoconstriction in inflammation...
- opisthodomoi were often closed off from the peristasis by wooden barriers or fences. Like the naos, the peristasis could serve the display and storage of votives...
- The peristasis (Gr****: περίστασις) was a four-sided porch or hallway of columns surrounding the cella in an ancient Gr**** peripteral temple. This allowed...
- The village was founded under the name of New Peristasis after 1922, by refugees from old Peristasis (present-day Şarköy of Eastern Thrace). Apart from...
- the UNESCO symbol alludes to this temple's six column facade. It has a peristasis of 6 x 13 columns built over a ba****t of 39.44 x 16.91 m; each Doric...
- around a building, especially an Ancient Gr**** temple. The pteroma or peristasis is the p****age between the columns and the wall in a temple, the peristyle...
- used archaic term for this feature. The peristyle in a Gr**** temple is a peristasis (περίστασις). In the Christian ecclesiastical architecture that developed...
- on all four sides of the cella (naos), creating a four-sided arcade (peristasis, or peristyle). By extension, it also means simply the perimeter of a...
- Temple of Heracles. The temple was built c. 440–430 BC. The well-preserved peristasis of six by thirteen columns stands on a crepidoma of four steps (measuring...
- sixteenth century Myriophytum displaced Peristasis, and the diocese took the name of Myriophyturn and Peristasis. According to the Ottoman po****tion statistics...