Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for AN-A-CAMP'TIC
AN-A-CAMP'TIC, a. [Gr. ανα and καμπτω, to bend.]
- Reflecting or reflected; a word formerly applied to that part of optics which treats of reflection; the same as what is now called catoptric. [See Catoptrics.]
- Anacamptic sounds, among the Greeks, were sounds produced by reflection, as in echoes; or such as proceeded downward from acute to grave. – Rousseau. Busby.
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