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In an analogical sense; in accordance with analogy; by way of similitude. A prince is analogically styled a pilot, being to the state as a pilot is to the vessel. Berkeley.

One who reasons from analogy, or represent, by analogy. Cheyne.

same genus, or a genus of the same group, in another: such species are often called representative species, and such genera, representative genera. Dana.

A resolution of anything, whether an object of the senses or of the intellect, into its constituent or original elements; an examination of the component parts of a subject, each separately, as the words which compose a sentence, the tones of a tune, or the simple propositions which enter into an argument. It is oppose…

elements or nature of the thing examined; as, to analyze a fossil substance; to analyze a sentence or a word; to analyze an action to ascertain its morality. No one, I presume, can analyze the sensations of pleasure or pain. Darwin.

A distorted or monstrous projection or representation of an image on a plane or curved surface, which, when viewed from a certain point, or as reflected from a curved mirror or through a polyhedron, appears regular and in proportion; a deformation of an image.

Absence of sexual appetite.

Absence of government; the state of society where there is no law or supreme power; a state of lawlessness; political confusion. Spread anarchy and terror all around. Cowper.

s and a diverging lens of equal and opposite astigmatism but different focal lengths, and sensibly free from astigmatism.

ered as a highly intensified form of anathema. Maran atha is now considered as a separate sentence, meaning, "Our Lord cometh."

r dissected, or which has the appearance of being so. The anatomy of a little child, representing all parts thereof, is accounted a greater rarity than the skeleton of a man in full stature. Fuller. They brought one Pinch, a hungry, lean-faced villain, A mere anatomy. Shak.

A senior; an elder; a predecessor. [Obs.] Junius and Andronicus . . . in Christianity . . . were his ancients. Hooker.

Seniority. [Obs.]

ction or addition. It is used to conjoin a word with a word, a clause with a clause, or a sentence with a sentence.

An eruptive rock allied to trachyte, consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar, with pyroxene, hornblende, or hypersthene.

A northern constellation, supposed to represent the mythical Andromeda.

A messenger. [R.] The dear good angel of the Spring, The nightingale. B. Jonson.

, or a body of doctrines in regard to angels. The same mythology commanded the general consent; the same angelology, demonology. Milman.

g, or shortness of breath. Angina pectoris, a peculiarly painful disease, so named from a sense of suffocating contraction or tightening of the lower part of the chest; -- called also breast pang, spasm of the chest.

In a restricted sense, a member of the High Church party, or of the more advanced ritualistic section, in the Church of England.