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Substantial Forms, Occult Qualities, Intentional Species, Idiosyncrasies, Sympathies and Antipathies of Things, are exploded...because they are only empty Sounds, Words whereof no Man can form a certain and determinate Idea.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Antipathies in plants and flowers would bring a similar evil influence, as the discords of the antagonistic human magnetism.

From The Light of Egypt; or, the science of the soul and the stars — Volume 2 by Burgoyne, Thomas H.

It still Plays a Part by Contributing to the Sympathies or the Antipathies of Intimate Contact.

From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man by Ellis, Havelock

See the whole Comus-rout of Absurdities, Appetites, Antics, Antipathies, personal, national, Driven before his bright Sun-Car!

From Punch Among the Planets by Various

And I sez, plungin’ to once into my bizness as my way is in Jonesville or the Antipathies: “Brigadier General, everybody knows that you are a brave man and a good man.”

From Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife by Holley, Marietta