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Causing loss of memory.

To grant amnesty to.

To admonish. [Obs.]

Entire or partial loss or absence of feeling or sensation; a state of general or local insensibility produced by disease or by the inhalation or application of an anæsthetic.

See Anæsthesia.

Capable of rendering insensible; as, anæsthetic agents.

The process of anæsthetizing; also, the condition of the nervous system induced by anæsthetics.

To render insensible by an anæsthetic. Encyc. Brit.

Aiding the memory; as, anamnestic remedies.

Same as Anapest, Anapestic.

d; the reverse of the dactyl. In Latin d, and in English in-ter-vene, are examples of anapests.

Pertaining to an anapest; consisting of an anapests; as, an anapestic meter, foot, verse. -- n.

Anapestic.

An earlier type; a progenitor; as, this fossil animal is regarded as the ancestor of the horse.

Ancestral. Grote.

With regard to ancestors.

Of, pertaining to, derived from, or possessed by, an ancestor or ancestors; as, an ancestral estate. "Ancestral trees." Hemans.

A female ancestor.

Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent. Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible. Addison.

Same as Anæsthesia, Anæsthetic.