antirum

English

Etymology

anti- +‎ rum

Adjective

antirum (comparative more antirum, superlative most antirum)

1. Opposing the drinking of rum.
   • 1979, Paul Kleppner, The Third Electoral System 1853-1892, volume 2, page 256:

     Those who had internalized that ethic and had linked it with the prohibitory cause were responsive to the antirum, antiparty pronouncements of their religious conferences.

   • 1987, Louis J. Budd, Edwin Harrison Cady, On Mark Twain, page 147:

     Their politics amount to no more than the division between the rum and the antirum parties […]

Anagrams

• natrium