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Characterized by, or connected with, insensibility; as, an anæsthetic effect or operation.

copying works in relief, or of engraving as to give the subject an embossed or raised appearance; -- used in representing coins, bas-reliefs, etc.

A species in one genus or group having its characters parallel, one by one, with those of another group.

tituent 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 opposed to synthesis.

metry. See under Geometry. -- Analytic language, a noninflectional language or one not characterized by grammatical endings. -- Analytical table (Nat. Hist.), a table in which the characteristics of the species or other groups are arranged so as to facilitate the determination of their names.

The act of analyzing, or separating into constituent parts; analysis.

To subject to analysis; to resolve (anything complex) into its elements; to separate into the constituent parts, for the purpose of an examination of each separately; to examine in such a manner as to ascertain the elements or nature of the thing examined; as, to analyze a fossil substance; to analyze a sentence or a w…

Pertaining to a process or a style of printing from characters in relief on zinc plates.

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

The art of dissecting, or artificially separating the different parts of any organized body, to discover their situation, structure, and economy; dissection.

A suffix signifying action; also, quality or state; as, assistance, resistance, appearance, elegance. See -ancy.

The union of two or more separate bones to from a single bone; the close union of bones or other structures in various animals.

Uniting both sexes in one, or having the characteristics of both; being in nature both male and female; hermaphroditic. Owen. The truth is, a great mind must be androgynous. Coleridge.

A substance incapable of being electrified by friction. Faraday.

A condition in the wood of some trees in which the rings are separated, as some suppose, by the action of high winds upon the trunk; wind shake.

A sinuous depression or sulcus like those separating the convolutions of the brain.

Belonging to, or proceeding from, angels; resembling, characteristic 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 calle…

The candied leaf stalks of angelica. Angelica tree, a thorny North American shrub (Aralia spinosa), called also Hercules' club.

The actual appearance of an angel to man.

Pertaining to, characteristic of, or held by, the high church party of the Church of England.