Conflicting, opposing.--Pickering's Vocabulary.
This word, says Mr. Pickering, has been censured by an American critic, in the following passage:
Nor can I forbear to remark the tendency of antagonizing appeals.--John Q. Adams's Letter to H. G. Otis.
The verb is given by Johnson, hut not the participle, nor is it noliced by Webster. Prof. Goodrich has inserted it in his new edition (184S) of Webster's Dictionary.