anti-episode

plural anti-episodes · alternative rare antiepisode

1. rareuncountableusuallyliteratureA narrative installment that intentionally subverts the standard format, pacing, or dramatic structure of a series.

   An 'anti-episode' can be seen in the third week of July (16-20 July) : no exceedances are observed at any of the stations.

   2001, European Environment Agency (contributor), Topic Report, Issues 13-16, page 19

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   Pezard has acceded to the calls of those critics who, interpreting as erroneous all of the declarations that pass the lips of the cleric, read the canto as an anti-episode, seeking in it their natural allies at least as far as their insistence on the intellectual understanding of Brunetto's sinful deviance.

   1998, Allen Mandelbaum, Anthony Oldcorn, Charles Ross (editors), Inferno, Lectura Dantis, page 207

   At the blurry corner of my vision plays-out the anti-episode of Chievres suffering the first real impact of his unconscionable crime, " - What have we done?" .. What have we done?"

   2005, Paul Casey, Open the Coffin, A True Story of the Supernatural, page 67

comparative more anti-episode · superlative most anti-episode · alternative rare antiepisode

1. rarehuman sciencesAgainst or acting or working against an episode.

   Given a fair degree of confidence in the possibility of success with the 'anti-episode' and maintenance therapies, the team can turn to other means of helping patients and supporting their families,

   1977, Royal College of Psychiatrists, Royal Medico-psychological Association (contributors), The British Journal of Psychiatry, volume 130, page 447

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   The other parameters, the age of onset, frequency of episodes, euphoric and grandiose symptoms, clinical respond to first lithium anti-episode medications and lithium clearance could also be used as corresponding predictive factors in selecting

   1991, Zhongshan Medical College (publisher), China Medical Abstracts, Chung-kuo i Hsüeh Wen Che Nei Kʻo Hsüeh Fen Tsʻe. Internal medicine, Volume 8, page 126