Anti-Federalists
members of a political party, in the United States, which opposed the adoption and ratification of the constitution, and failing in this, strongly favored favored the strict construction of it. The strengthening of the National Government at the expense of the States was also opposed. Soon after the close of Washington's first administraof prophecy; or if anti be held to mean instead of, then the characteristic of Antichrist will be a supercession of Christ, tion (1793) the name of Anti-Federal not an avowed antagonism to Him. went out of use, the term Republican, ANTICLINAL LINE or AXIS, in geology, the ridge of a wavelike curve made by a series of superimposed strata, the strata dipping from it on either side as from the ridge of a house: a synclinal line runs along the trough of such a wave.