Chapter Analepsis to Anastomotic of A by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

Analepsis to Anastomotic

Analepsis
(||An`a*lep"sis) Analepsy
(An"a*lep"sy) [Gr. a taking up, or again, recovery, from . See Analemma.] (Med.) (a) Recovery of strength after sickness. (b) A species of epileptic attack, originating from gastric disorder.

Analeptic
(An`a*lep"tic) a. [Gr. restorative: cf. F. analeptique. See Analepsis.] (Med.) Restorative; giving strength after disease. — n. A restorative.

Analgesia
(||An`al*ge"si*a) n. [NL., fr. Gr. 'analghsi`a; 'an priv. + 'a`lghsis sense of pain.] (Med.) Absence of sensibility to pain. Quain.

Anallagmatic
(An`al*lag*mat"ic) a. [Gr. 'an priv. + a change.] (Math.) 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.

Anallantoic
(An`al*lan*to"ic) a. (Anat.) Without, or not developing, an allantois.

Anallantoidea
(||An`al*lan*toid"e*a) n. pl. [Gr. 'an priv. + E. allantoidea.] (Zoöl.) The division of Vertebrata in which no allantois is developed. It includes amphibians, fishes, and lower forms.

Analogal
(A*nal"o*gal) a. Analogous. [Obs.] Donne.

Analogic
(An`a*log"ic) a. [See Analogous.] Of or belonging to analogy. Geo. Eliot.

Analogical
(An`a*log"ic*al) a.

1. Founded on, or of the nature of, analogy; expressing or implying analogy.

When a country which has sent out colonies is termed the mother country, the expression is analogical.
J. S. Mill.

2. Having analogy; analogous. Sir M. Hale.

Analogically
(An`a*log"ic*al*ly), adv. In an analogical sense; in accordance with analogy; by way of similitude.

A prince is analogically styled a pilot, being to the state as a pilot is to the vessel.
Berkeley.

Analogicalness
(An`a*log"ic*al*ness), n. Quality of being analogical.

Analogism
(A*nal"o*gism) n. [Gr. course of reasoning, fr. to think over, to calculate]

1. Logic an argument from the cause to the effect; an a priori argument. Johnson.

2. Investigation of things by the analogy they bear to each other. Crabb.

Analogist
(A*nal"o*gist) n. One who reasons from analogy, or represent, by analogy. Cheyne.

Analogize
(A*nal"o*gize), v. i. To employ, or reason by, analogy.

Analogon
(||A*nal"o*gon) n. Analogue.