An-tĭs'ta-sĭs, n.

An-tĭs'ta-sĭs, n. [Gr. ἀντίστασις, opposition, from ἀντιστῆναι, to withstand, from ἀντί, against, and στῆναι, to stand.] (Rhet.) The defense of an action from the consideration that if it had been omitted, something worse would have happened.