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antitea en · ADJ

Etymology

From anti- + tea.

Meanings

1. Opposing tea (the drink).
   • The continued, admiring gloating over this act of rebellion in American schoolrooms, he concluded, has over the centuries imbued young Americans with an antitea attitude. 1980, Vance Oakley Packard, The hidden persuaders:
   • Physicians, recruited to the antitea cause, stated that the drink weakened "the tone of the stomach, and therefore of the whole system, inducing' tremors and spasmodic affections." 1989, Page Smith, A new age now begins: a people's history of the American Revolution:

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