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In eager desire; eager; astir. All agog to dash through thick and thin. Cowper.

An elevation of mind to things celestial.

Mystical; having a secondary spiritual meaning; as, the rest of the Sabbath, in an anagogical sense, signifies the repose of the saints in heaven; an anagogical explication. -- An`a*gog"ic*al*ly, adv.

Mystical interpretations or studies, esp. of the Scriptures. L. Addison.

Same as Anagoge.

A figure which consists in answering the charge of an adversary, by a counter charge.

Checking the flow of saliva.

An indirect argument which proves a thing by showing the impossibility or absurdity of the contrary.

Proving indirectly, by showing the absurdity, or impossibility of the contrary. Bp. Berkeley.

Promoting the discharge of bile from the system. -- n.

Demagogue.

Relating to, or like, a demagogue; factious.

The practices of a demagogue.

A leader of the rabble; one who attempts to control the multitude by specious or deceitful arts; an unprincipled and factious mob orator or political leader.

Demagogism.

See Emmenagogue.

A medicine that promotes the menstrual discharge.

The adducing of particular examples so as to lead to a universal conclusion; the argument by induction.

Inductive. Latham.

A vermifuge.