Dictionary: AN'A-LYZE – AN-A-STAL'TIC

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AN'A-LYZE, v.t. [Gr. αναλυω. See Analysis.]

To resolve a body into its elements; to separate a compound subject into its parts or propositions, for the purpose of an examination of each separately; as, to analyze a fossil substance; to analyze an action to ascertain its morality.

AN'A-LYZ-ED, pp.

Resolved into its constituent parts or principles, for examination.

AN'A-LYZ-ER, n.

One who analyzes; that which analyzes or has the power to analyze.

AN'A-LYZ-ING, ppr.

Resolving into elements, constituent parts, or first principles.

AN-AM-NE'SIS, n.

A figure in rhetoric. It calls to remembrance something omitted. Knowles.

AN-AM-NES'TIC, a.

That aids the memory.

AN-A-MORPH'O-SIS, or AN-A-MORPH'O-SY, n. [Gr. ανα, and μορφωσις, formation.]

  1. In perspective drawings, a deformed or distorted portrait or figure, which, in one point of view, is confused or unintelligible, and in another, is an exact and regular representation; or confused to the naked eye, but reflected from a plain or curved mirror, appearing regular, and in right proportion. – Johnson. Encyc.
  2. In botany, any part of a plant in which there is an unusual degree of cellular development. – Lindley.

A-NA'NAS, n.

The name of a species of Bromelia, the pineapple. – Encyc.

AN-AN'GU-LAR, a.

Without angles.

AN'A-PEST, n. [Gr. ανα, and παιω, to strike. Bailey.]

In poetry, a foot consisting of three syllables, the first two short, the last long; the reverse of the dactyl; as, Căn ă bōsŏm sŏ gēntlĕ rĕmāin, / Unmoved when her Corydon sighs? – Shenstone.

AN-A-PEST'IC, a.

Pertaining to an anapest; consisting of anapestic feet.

AN-A-PEST'IC, n.

The anapestic measure. – Bentley.

A-NAPH'O-RA, n. [Gr. from αναφερω.]

  1. A figure in rhetoric, when the same word or words are repeated at the beginning of two or more succeeding verses or clauses of a sentence; as, “Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this world?” – Johnson.
  2. Among physicians, the discharge of blood or purulent matter by the mouth. – Encyc. Coxe.

AN-A-PLE-ROT'IC, a. [Gr. αναπληροω, to fill.]

Filling up; supplying or renovating flesh.

AN-A-PLE-ROT'IC, n.

A medicine which renews flesh or wasted parts. – Encyc. Coxe.

AN'ARCH, n. [See Anarchy.]

The author of confusion; one who excites revolt. – Milton.

A-NARCH'IC, or A-NARCH'IC-AL, a.

Without rule or government; in a state of confusion; applied to a state or society. Fielding uses anarchial, a word of less difficult pronunciation.

AN'ARCH-ISM, n.

Confusion.

AN'ARCH-IST, n.

An anarch; one who excites revolt, or promotes disorder in a state. Stephens.

AN'ARCH-Y, n. [Gr. αναρχια, of α privative and αρχη, rule.]

Want of government; a state society, when there is no law or supreme power, or when the laws are not efficient, and individuals do what they please with impunity; political confusion.

A-NAR'HI-CHAS, n.

The sea wolf; a genus of ravenous fish, of the order of Apodals, found in the northern seas.

A'NAS, n. [L.]

A genus of water fowls, of the order Anseres. The species are very numerous.

AN-A-SAR'CA, n. [Gr. ανα, in or between, and σαρξ, flesh.]

An effusion of water into the cellular substance, occasioning a soft, pale, inelastic swelling of the skin. – Quincy. Coxe.

AN-A-SAR'COUS, a.

Belonging to anasarca, or dropsy; dropsical.

AN-A-STAL'TIC, a. [Gr. αναστελλω, to close.]

In medicine, astringent, styptic. – Coxe.