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An error in regard to the place of an event or a thing; a referring something to a wrong place. [R.]

A misplacing or error in the order of time; an error in chronology by which events are misplaced in regard to each other, esp. one by which an event is placed too early; falsification of chronological relation.

A secondary notch in the pulse curve, obtained in a sphygmographic tracing.

The act or practice of making anagrams. Camden.

Logic

A distorted image.

The doctrine or practice of anarchists.

Moving up and down; -- said of earthquake shocks.

Anathematization. [Obs.] We find a law of Justinian forbidding anathematisms to be pronounced against the Jewish Hellenists. J. Taylor.

Compound interest. [R.] Bouvier.

The application of the principles of anatomy, as in art. The stretched and vivid anatomism of their [i. e., the French] great figure painters. The London Spectator.

The practice or mode of life of an anchoret.

Doubt; uncertainty. [Obs.] Shelford.

Union of both sexes in one individual; hermaphroditism.

A soft, pulsating, hollow tumor, containing blood, arising from the preternatural dilation or rupture of the coats of an artery. [Written also aneurysm.]

Of or pertaining to an aneurism; as, an aneurismal tumor; aneurismal diathesis. [Written also aneurysmal.]

Strong partiality to the principles and rites of the Church of England.

An English idiom; a phrase or form language peculiar to the English. Dryden.

The belief of those in the Church of England who accept many doctrines and practices which they maintain were those of the primitive, or true, Catholic Church, of which they consider the Church of England to be the lineal descendant.

A characteristic of the Anglo-Saxon race; especially, a word or an idiom of the Anglo-Saxon tongue. M. Arnold.