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But with dissimilitudes no conjunction can be effected, because they are antipathetical.

From The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love by Swedenborg, Emanuel

There is a chilly, disagreeable kind of article, called common sense, which is of all things most repulsive and antipathetical to all petted creatures whose life has consisted in flattery.

From Pink and White Tyranny A Society Novel by Stowe, Harriet Beecher

He was an antipathetical being, with a peculiar power and gift of treading on everybody’s tenderest place. 

From The Uncommercial Traveller by Dickens, Charles

To this impressionable man, Parisian badinage—not to call it anything stronger—was positively antipathetical.

From Chopin : the Man and His Music by Huneker, James

Love is sometimes the growth of degrees: it may also bound into existence in a moment; for there is a certain sympathetic attraction between some persons, as there is between others an antipathetical, repulsive force.

From She and I, Volume 1 by Hutcheson, John C. (John Conroy)