anapaest 
anapaest, anapaestic, etc. Same as anapest, 
etc., with Latin a; retained. 
anapaganize (au-a-pa'gan-Iz), r. t. [< Gr. avd, 
again (aw ana-), + paganize, q. v.] To make 
pagan again ; repaganize. Soutliey. [Rare.] 
anapeiratic (an*a-pi-rat'ik), . [Prop. *a>iu- 
l>i m tic, < Gr. dvaxupaafai, try again, do again, 
exercise, < dwi, again, + iretpav, attempt, try : 
see pirate, piratic.] Arising from too long or 
too frequent exercise : applied to a kind of pa- 
ralysis produced by the habitual use of certain 
muscles in the same way for a long time, such 
as writers' palsy, telegraphers' paralysis, etc. 
anapest, [In fustian anapes, an apes, and /.<, 
a iiu/icti, corrupted from of Naples.] Of Naples : 
applied to fustian produced there. 
anapest, anapaest (an'a-pest), . [< L. ana- 
pfestus, < Gr. avinrataroq, prop, a verbal adj., 
struck back, rebounding, because the foot is the 
reverse of a dactyl (L. dactylus repercussits, anti- 
dactylns), (avairaisiv, strike back or again,< avd, 
back, + Traifiv, strike, = L. pamre, strike : see 
pare.] In pros., a foot consisting of three 
syllables, the first two short or unaccented, 
the last long or accented: the reverse of the 
dactyl. 
anapestic, anapaestic (an-a-pes'tik), a. and n. 
[< anapest, anapatst, + -ic.] I. a. Pertaining 
to or of the nature of an anapest; consisting 
of anapests. 
II. H. The anapestic measure ; an anapestic 
verse. The following is an example of anapes- 
tics: 
"And the sheeu of their spears was like stars on the sea 
Where the blue waves roll nightly o'er deep Galilee." 
Byron, Descent of Sennacherib. 
anapestical, anapaestical (an-a-pes'ti-kal), . 
Same as anapestic. [Rare.] 
anapestically, anapaestically (an-a-pes'ti- 
kal-i), adr. In anapestic rhythm, 
ariaphalantiasis (an-a-fal-an-ti'a-sis), . [NL., 
< Gr. dvafya't.avTiaaif^ baldness in front, < avd, 
up, + tydt-avBof, *<t>dAavTOf, bald in front.] In 
patliol., the falling out of the eyebrows. 
anaphora (an-af'o-ra), . ; pi. anaphora! (-re). 
[L., < Gr. dvaQopa, a coming up, ascension, a 
bringing up, a reference, recourse, an offering, 
< avaifiepeiv, bring up, bring back, refer, pour 
forth, offer, etc., < avd, up, back, + Qepeiv, carry, 
bear, = E. bear 1 .] 1. In rhet., a figure con- 
sisting in the repetition of the same word or 
words at the beginning of two or more succeed- 
ing verses, clauses, or sentences : as, " Where 
is the wise f where is the scribe ? where is the dis- 
puter of this world?" ICor.i. 20. 2. Inastron., 
the oblique ascension of a star. 3. In liturgies, 
the more solemn part of the eucharistic service : 
probably so called from the oblation which oc- 
curs in it. The anaphora begins with the Sursum Corda, 
and includes all that follows, that is, the preface, conse- 
cration, great oblation, communion, thanksgiving, etc. In 
some of the more ancient forms it is preceded by a bene- 
diction. 
anaphrodisia (au-af-ro-diz'i-a), . [NL., < 
Gr. dvatjipo6iaia, < dva<t>p66m>f, without venereal 
desire, < av- priv. + 'JLtpoiirq, Venus. ] The ab- 
sence of sexual power or appetite ; impotence. 
anaphrodisiac (an-af-ro-diz i-ak), a. and n. [< 
Gr. av- priv. + dQpoSiai'andf, venereal : see aph- 
rodisiac.] I. a. Tending to diminish sexual 
desire ; pertaining to anaphrodisia, or to anaph- 
rodisiacs. 
II. . That which dulls or diminishes sexual 
appetite, as a drug, bathing, etc.; an antaph- 
rodisiae. 
anaphroditic (an-af-ro-dit'ik), a. [< Gr. dva- 
typuoiTot; : see anaphrodisia. ] Agamogenetic ; 
asexually produced. 
anaphroditous (an-af-ro-dl'tus), a. [< Gr. 
dvaippoaiTof : see anaphrodisia.] Without sex- 
ual appetite. Syd. Soc. Lex. 
anaplastic (an-a-plas'tik), a. [As anaplasty + 
-ic.] Of, pertaining to, performed by, or used 
in the operation of anaplasty : as, an anaplas- 
tic instrument. 
anaplasty (au'a-plas-ti), n. [< Gr. ottfor/Uioroff 
that may be formed anew, verbal adj. of dva- 
TrJidooeiv, form anew, remodel, < avd, again, + 
TTAdaaeiv, mold, form : see plastic.] In surg., the 
repairing of superficial lesions, or solutions of 
continuity, by the employment of adjacent 
healthy structure, as by transplanting a neigh- 
boring portion of skin. Noses, etc., are thus 
restored. 
anaplerosis (an"a-ple-ro'sis), n. [NL., < Gr. 
dva-?.j/puatf, < dvair?.iipovv, fill up, < avd, up, + 
-M/povv, fill, < Tr'/Jipr/f, full, akin to L. plenus, full : 
see plenty.] The addition of what is lacking; 
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specifically, in med., the filling up of a deficiency 
caused by loss of substance, as in wounds. 
anaplerotic (an"a-ple-rot'ik), a. and M. [< L. 
itHttpleroticiis, ( Gr. *dvaiT/7}piimti6(;, fit for filling 
up, < dvajr/.r/imin; fill up, restore: see an<i/>ic- 
roig.] I. a. In med., filling up; promoting 
granulation of wounds or ulcers. 
II. n. A substance or application which pro- 
motes the granulation of wounds or ulcers. 
Anaplotherium, n. Erroneous form of Ano- 
plotltcritiiH. lirandr. 
anapnograph (an-ap'no-graf), n. [< Gr. dva- 
7ri>o/i, respiration (< avaitveiv, take breath, < avd, 
again, + irveiv, breathe ) ; + ypdtyuv, write.] An 
instrument for registering the movements and 
amount of expiration and inspiration. N. E. D. 
anapnometer (an-ap-nom'e-ter), . [< Gr. dva- 
vvoij, respiration (see anapnograph), + uerpav, 
a measure.] An instrument for measuring the 
force of respiration ; a spirometer. N. E. D. 
anapodictic (an-ap-o-dik'tik) ; a. [< Gr. dvav6- 
deiKTOf, not demonstrable, < uv- priv. + <'wrofe- 
urdc, demonstrable : see apodictic.] Incapable 
of being demonstrated by argument. 
anapophysial (an-ap-o-fiz'i-al), a. [< anapophy- 
sis.] Relating or pertaining to an anapophysis. 
anapophysis (an-a-pof'i-sis), n.; pi. anapophi/ses 
(-sez). [NL., < Gr. avd, back, + amfytwf, an off- 
shoot, process of a bone, < dvo^veiv, put forth, 
in pass, grow as an offshoot, < OTTO, from, off 
(see apo-), + ^'EH', produce, in pass, grow : see 
' "" In ana t. , a small backward projecting 
Anarhynchus 
.Socialism throughout the south of Europe, and it is the 
substance of his doctrines that we meet in those of the 
Paris Revolution of the 18th of March. 
iirii'-ti, tr. of Laveleye's Socialism, p. 196. 
anarchical (a-nar'ki-kal), a. Same as anar- 
(an 'ar-kizm), . [< anarchy + 
-is HI.] 1. Confusion; disorder; anarchy. 2. 
The doctrines of the anarchists ; the anarchic 
and socialistic scheme of society proposed by 
Proudhon. See anarchy, 2. 
anarchist (an'iir-kist), H. [< anarchy + -ist; = 
F. anarchiste.] 1. Properly, one who advocates 
anarchy or the absence of government as a 
political ideal ; a believer in an anarchic theory 
of society ; especially, an adherent of the social 
theory of Proudhon. See anarchy, 2. 2. In 
popular use, one who seeks to overturn by vio- 
lence all constituted forms and institutions of 
society and government, all law and order, and 
all rights of property, with no purpose of es- 
tablishing any other system of order in the 
place of that destroyed ; especially, such a per- 
son when actuated by mere lust of plunder. 3. 
Any person who promotes disorder or excites 
revolt against an established rule, law, or cus- 
tom. See anarch and nihilist. 
anarchistic (an-ar-kis'tik), a. [< anarchist + 
-ic.] Pertaining to, having the characteristics 
of, or advocating anarchism. 
Secret conspirators and anarchistic agitators. 
Appleton's Ann. Cyc., 1884, p. 357. 
tween the prezygapophysis and the diapophy- 
sis. It is developed especially in the posterior dorsal and 
lumbar regions of the spine. Also called an accessory 
process. See cut under lumbar. 
Anaptomorphidae (an-ap-to-mor'fi-de), n. pi. 
[NL.,< Anaptomorphus + -idw.] A family of 
extinct Eocene lemuroid mammals of North 
America, with two premolars and a dental for- 
mula like that of the higher apes. 
The most evident lemuroids yet found in North Amer- 
ica belong to the family of the Aiiaptomorphidce. 
Cope, Amer. Naturalist (1885), p. 465. 
Anaptomorphus (an-ap-to-mor'fus), n. [NL., 
< Gr. av- priv. + dnreiv, fasten, + uopijaj, form.] 
The typical genus of the family Anaptomor- 
phidce, founded on the jaw of a small species, 
A. (Bmulus. A. homunciilus is another species, found in 
the Wahsatch beds of Wyoming. The lacrymal foramen 
is external, and the symphysis of the jaw is unossifled. 
As far as dental characters go, Anaptomorphus comes 
closer to man than any of the existing Primates. 
Stand. Sat, Hist., V. 493. 
anaptotic (an-ap-tot'ik), a. [< Gr. dvd, back, 
again, + dxruTOf, indeclinable : see aptote.] In 
philol., becoming again uninflected : applied to 
languages which have a tendency to lose or have 
already lost the use of inflections. 
anaptychus (an-ap'ti-kus), .; pi. anaptychi 
(-ki). [NL., < Gr. dvdirTvxof, var. of dvanrvKTOf, 
that may be opened, verbal adj. of dvaKTvaaciv, 
open, unfold, < dvd, back, + irTuaaeiv, fold.] One 
of the heart-shaped plates divided by a suture 
found in some fossil cephalopods, as goniatites 
and ammonites. See aptychus. 
anarch (an'ark), n. [Formed after the analogy 
chief: see anarchy.] A promoter of anarchy; 
one who excites revolt against all government 
or authority ; an anarchist. 
Him thus the anarch old, 
With faltering speech and visage incomposed, 
Answer'd. Milton, P. L., ii. 988. 
" A torpedo," cried Zero, brightening, " a torpedo in the 
Thames ! Superb, dear fellow ! I recognize in you the 
marks of an accomplished anarch." 
It. L. Stevenson, The Dynamiter, p. 305. 
anarchal, anarchial (a-nar'kal, -ki-al), a. [< 
a head or chief: see an- 
; lawless ; anarchical. 
[Rare.] 
We are in the habit of calling those bodies of men (in- 
archal which are iu a state of effervescence. 
Landor, Imaginary Conversations, I. 135. 
anarchic (a-nar'kik), o. [< anarchy + -ic.] 1. 
To put into a state of anarchy or confusion ; 
reduce to anarchy ; throw into confusion. 
anarchy (an'ar-ki), . [< P. anarchie, < Gr. dv- 
apx'ia, lack of a ruler or of government, anarchy, 
< avapxof, without a ruler or chief, < av- priv. + 
dpxo(, a ruler, dpxfi, rule, government, < dpxeiv, 
rule, be first: see arch-. Cf. monarchy.] 1. 
Absence or insufficiency of government ; a state 
of society in which there is no capable supreme 
power, and in which the several functions of the 
state are performed badly or not at all ; social 
and political confusion. 
It seemed but too likely that England would fall under 
the most odious and degrading of all kinds of government, 
. . . uniting all the evils of despotism to all the evils of 
anarchy. Macaulay. 
Specifically 2. A social theory which regards 
the union of order with the absence of all direct 
government of man by man as the political 
ideal ; absolute individual liberty. The most noted 
expounder of this theory was Pierre Joseph Proudhon 
(1809-1865), whose views have been adopted, with various 
modifications, by many agitators. 
Proudhon . . . said that " the true form of the state is 
anarchy," . . . meaning by anarchy, of course, not positive 
disorder, but the absence of any supreme ruler, whether 
king or convention. Rae, Contemp. Socialism, p. 141. 
3. Confusion in general. 
The late beauteous prospect presents one scene of an- 
archy and wild uproar, as though old Chaos had resumed 
his reign, and was hurling back into one vast turmoil the 
conflicting elements of nature. 
Irving, Knickerbocker, p. 185. 
= Syn. Anarchy, Chaos. Anarchtj is an absence of gov- 
ernment : chaos is an absence of order. 
in, anarcotine (a-nar'ko-tin), . [< 
'. d-priv. (a- 1 ^) + narcotic + -/H 2 , -iwe 2 .] A 
name proposed for narcotine, because of its 
apparent freedom from narcotic properties. 
anareta (an-ar'e-ta), n. [ML., prop, "antereia, 
< Gr. dvaipcT/if, destroyer, murderer: see Ance- 
retes.] In astral., the lord of the eighth house ; 
the killing planet. 
The length of time which the apheta and anareta, as 
posited in each respective figure of a nativity, will be in 
forming a conjunction, or coining together in the same 
point of the heavens, is the precise length of the native's 
life. Sibley, Astrology. 
anaretic (an-a-ret'ik), a. [PTop.*ana?retic, < Gr. 
dvaipermdc, destructive, with ref. to anareta, q. 
v.] In astral., destructive ; killing : with refer- 
ence to the anareta. 
The anaretic or killing places are the places of Saturn 
by anarchy; without rule or government; in 
confusion. An equivalent form is anarchical. 
Mr. Arnold is impatient with the unregulated and, as 
he think-, anarchic state of our society ; and everywhere 
displays a longing for more administrative and control- 
ling agencies. //. Spencer, Study of Sociol., p. 231. 
2. Relating or pertaining to the theory of so- 
ciety called anarchy ; founded on anarchy or 
anarchism. See anarchy, 2. 
Not only is he [Bakuninl the father of Xihi(ism in Rus- 
sia, but he hiis ljueu the apostle of International Anarchic 
anaretical (an-a-ret'i-kal), o. Same as anaretic. 
Sibley. 
Anarhynchus (an-a-ring'kus), . [NL., < Gr. 
dvd, up, back, + t>vyx, snout, bill.] A remark- 
able genus of plovers, differing from all other 
birds in having the end of the bill bent sidewise 
and upward, but otherwise quite like ordinary 
plovers. A. frontalis, the only species, is a na- 
tive of New Zealand. Also spelled Anarrhyn- 
I'luis. Quoy (indGaimard, 1833. See cut under 
plover. 
