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Antitype [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. 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.

2. 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.

Antitype [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

That of which the type is the pattern or representation; that which is represented by the type or symbol.

Antitype Encyclopedia Britannica

ANTITYPE (αvτtτυ7r0ς) denotes a type or figure corresponding to some other type. It is in this sense of copy or likeness that the word occurs in the New Testament (Heb. ix. 24; 1 Peter iii. 21). By theological writers antitype is employed to denote the reality of which a type is the prophetic symbol. Thus, Christ is the antitype of many of the types of. the Jewish ritual. By the fathers of the Greek Church antitype is employed as a designation of the bread and wine in the sacrament of the Lord’s supper.

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 2, p. 138
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Antitype Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary

that which answers to a type or figure. A type is a model, mould, or pattern; that which is formed according to it is an antitype. See TYPE.

Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary
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