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Not apodeictic; undemonstrable. [R.]

An accessory process in many lumbar vertebræ.

Having lost, or tending to lose, inflections by phonetic decay; as, anaptotic languages.

One of a pair of shelly plates found in some cephalopods, as the ammonites.

The author of anarchy; one who excites revolt. Milton. Imperial anarchs doubling human woes. Byron.

Lawless; anarchical. [R.] We are in the habit of calling those bodies of men anarchal which are in a state of effervescence. Landor.

Pertaining to anarchy; without rule or government; in political confusion; tending to produce anarchy; as, anarchic despotism; anarchical opinions.

The doctrine or practice of anarchists.

An anarch; one who advocates anarchy of aims at the overthrow of civil government.

To reduce to anarchy.

ere there is no law or supreme power; a state of lawlessness; political confusion. Spread anarchy and terror all around. Cowper.

One of the divisions of Articulata in which there are no jointed legs, as the annelids; -- opposed to Arthropoda.

Having no jointed legs; pertaining to Anarthropoda.

Used without the article; as, an anarthrous substantive.

A genus of water fowls, of the order Anseres, including certain species of fresh-water ducks.

Dropsy of the subcutaneous cellular tissue; an effusion of serum into the cellular substance, occasioning a soft, pale, inelastic swelling of the skin.

Belonging, or affected by, anasarca, or dropsy; dropsical. Wiseman.

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

Styptic. [Obs.] Coxe.

One of a series of substances formed, in secreting cells, by constructive or anabolic processes, in the production of protoplasm; -- opposed to katastate. Foster.