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Full of love; amatory.

The faculty supposed to influence sexual desire; propensity to love. Combe.

Of or pertaining to a lover or to love making; amatory; as, amatorial verses.

In an amatorial manner.

Amatory. [R.] Johnson.

Amatory. [Obs.] "Amatorious poem." Milton.

Pertaining to, producing, or expressing, sexual love; as, amatory potions.

Pertaining to, containing, or making, anagram. -- An`a*gram*mat"ic*al*ly, adv.

The act or practice of making anagrams. Camden.

A maker anagrams.

To transpose, as the letters of a word, so as to form an anagram. Cudworth.

Not changed in form by inversion. Anallagmatic curves, a class of curves of the fourth degree which have certain peculiar relations to circles; -- sometimes called bicircular quartics. -- Anallagmatic surfaces, a certain class of surfaces of the fourth degree.

Not astigmatic; --said esp. of a lens system which consists of a converging lens and a diverging lens of equal and opposite astigmatism but different focal lengths, and sensibly free from astigmatism.

Pertaining to, or having the nature of, an anathema. -- A*nath`e*mat"ic*al*ly, adv.

Anathematization. [Obs.] We find a law of Justinian forbidding anathematisms to be pronounced against the Jewish Hellenists. J. Taylor.

The act of anathematizing, or denouncing as accursed; imprecation. Barrow.

To pronounce an anathema against; to curse. Hence: To condemn publicly as something accursed. Milton.

One who pronounces an anathema. Hammond.

Same as Angiospermous.

Not idiomatic. [R.] Landor.