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By reflection; as, echoes are sound produced anacamptically. Hutton.

See Anchoret, Anchoretic. [Obs.]

Pertaining to, containing, or making, anagram. -- An`a*gram*mat"ic*al*ly, adv.

Of or pertaining to analysis; resolving into elements or constituent parts; as, an analytical experiment; analytic reasoning; -- opposed to synthetic. Analytical or coördinate geometry. See under Geometry. -- Analytic language, a noninflectional language or one not characterized by grammatical endings. -- Analytical…

In an analytical manner.

Anapestic.

Pertaining to, or having the nature of, an anathema. -- A*nath`e*mat"ic*al*ly, adv.

Pertaining to an anchoret or hermit; after the manner of an anchoret.

Pertaining to, consisting of, or addicted to, anecdotes. "Anecdotical traditions." Bolingbroke.

Not idiomatic. [R.] Landor.

Irregular; departing from common or established rules.

With irregularity.

Opposing in combat, combating; contending or acting against; as, antagonistic forces. -- An*tag`o*nis"tic*al*ly, adv. They were distinct, adverse, even antagonistic. Milman.

Opposed to all human government. [R.]

Serving as an antidote. -- An`ti*dot"ic*al*ly, adv.

Antiparalytic.

Having a natural contrariety, or constitutional aversion, to a thing; characterized by antipathy; -- often followed by to. Fuller.

Pertaining to antiphrasis. -- An`ti*phras"tic*al*ly, adv.

Antiscorbutic.

Counteracting or preventing putrefaction, or a putrescent tendency in the system; antiputrefactive. Antiseptic surgery, that system of surgical practice which insists upon a systematic use of antiseptics in the performance of operations and the dressing of wounds.