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inflection, or principle of pronunciation, and the like, as opposed to pl. analogies. Johnson.

; 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 table (Nat. Hist.), a table…

Same as Antaphrodisiac. Dunglison.

Any person or thing anathematized, or cursed by ecclesiastical authority. The Jewish nation were an anathema destined to destruction. St. Paul . . . says he could wish, to save them from it, to become an anathema, and be destroyed himself. Locke. Anathema Maranatha Etym: (see 1 Cor. xvi. 22), an expression commonly con…

To discriminate minutely or carefully; to analyze. If we anatomize all other reasonings of this nature, we shall find that they are founded on the relation of cause and effect. Hume.

Saltpeter. Coxe. Johnson.

One from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a fore father.

le and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible. Addison.

A toll for anchoring; anchorage duties. Johnson.

One who renounces the world and secludes himself, usually for religious reasons; a hermit; a recluse. [Written by some authors anachoret.] Our Savior himself . . . did not choose an anchorite's or a monastic life, but a social and affable way of conversing with mortals. Boyle.

Stiffness or fixation of a joint; formation of a stiff joint. Dunglison.

An aged man; a patriarch. Hence: A governor; a ruler; a person of influence. The Lord will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof. Isa. iii. 14.

It is sometimes, in old songs, a mere expletive. When that I was and a little tiny boy. Shak.

. sorghum and A. halepensis, from which have been derived the Chinese sugar cane, the Johnson grass, the Aleppo grass, the broom corn, and the durra, or Indian millet. Several East Indian species, as A. nardus and A. schonanthus, yield fragrant oils, used in perfumery.

An acrid, poisonous, crystallizable substance, obtained from, the anemone, or from anemonin.

An acrid, poisonous, crystallizable substance, obtained from some species of anemone.

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

istic of, or partaking of the nature of, an angel; heavenly; divine. "Angelic harps." Thomson."Angelical actions." Hooker. The union of womanly tenderness and angelic patience. Macaulay. Angelic Hymn, a very ancient hymn of the Christian Church; -- so called from its beginning with the song of the heavenly host recorde…

An instrument of music, of the lute kind, now disused. Johnson. R. Browning.

Dissection of the blood vessels and lymphatics of the body. Dunglison.