Anaphora
(||A*naph"o*ra) n. [L., fr. Gr. fr. to carry up or back; + to carry.] (Rhet.) A repetition of a word or of words at the beginning of two or more successive clauses.

Anaphrodisia
(||An*aph`ro*dis"i*a) n. [NL., fr. Gr. 'an priv. + sexual pleasure, the goddess of love.] (Med.) Absence of sexual appetite.

Anaphrodisiac
(An*aph`ro*dis"i*ac) a. & n. [Gr. 'an priv. + pertaining to venery.] (Med.) Same as Antaphrodisiac. Dunglison.

Anaphroditic
(An*aph`ro*dit"ic) a. [Gr. without love.] (Biol.) Produced without concourse of sexes.

Anaplastic
(An`a*plas"tic) a. Of or pertaining to anaplasty.

Anaplasty
(An`a*plas`ty) n. [Gr. again + to form: cf. F. anaplastie.] (Surg.) The art of operation of restoring lost parts or the normal shape by the use of healthy tissue.

Anaplerotic
(An`a*ple*rot"ic) a. [L. anapleroticus, fr. Gr. to fill up; + to fill.] (Med.) Filling up; promoting granulation of wounds or ulcers.n. A remedy which promotes such granulation.

Anapnograph
(A*nap"no*graph) n. [Gr. respiration + -graph.] A form of spirometer.

Anapnoic
(An`ap*no"ic) a. (Med.) Relating to respiration.

Anapodeictic
(An*ap`o*deic"tic) a. [Gr. 'an priv. + . See Apodeictic.] Not apodeictic; undemonstrable. [R.]

Anapophysis
(||An`a*poph"y*sis) n. [Gr. back + offshoot.] (Anat.) An accessory process in many lumbar vertebræ.

Anaptotic
(An`ap*tot"ic) a. [Gr. back + belonging to case.] Having lost, or tending to lose, inflections by phonetic decay; as, anaptotic languages.

Anaptychus
(||An*ap"ty*chus) n.; pl. Anaptichi [NL., fr. Gr. unfolding; back + to fold.] (Paleon.) One of a pair of shelly plates found in some cephalopods, as the ammonites.

Anarch
(An"arch) n. [Gr. without head or chief; 'an priv. + beginning, the first place, magistracy, government.] The author of anarchy; one who excites revolt. Milton.

Imperial anarchs doubling human woes.
Byron.

Anarchal
(A*nar"chal) a. Lawless; anarchical. [R.]

We are in the habit of calling those bodies of men anarchal which are in a state of effervescence.
Landor.

Anarchic
(A*nar"chic A*nar"chic*al) a. [Cf. F. anarchique.] Pertaining to anarchy; without rule or government; in political confusion; tending to produce anarchy; as, anarchic despotism; anarchical opinions.

Anarchism
(An"arch*ism) n. [Cf. F. anarchisme.] The doctrine or practice of anarchists.

Anarchist
(An"arch*ist) n. [Cf. F. anarchiste.] An anarch; one who advocates anarchy of aims at the overthrow of civil government.

Anarchize
(An"arch*ize) v. t. To reduce to anarchy.

Anarchy
(An"arch*y) n. [Gr. : cf. F. anarchie. See Anarch.]


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