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Analysis is alfo ufed for a kind of fyllabus, ortable, 
■of tlie principal heads or articles of a continued difcourfe, 
difpofed in their natural order and dependency. Analyfes 
are more fcientifical than alphabetical indexes; bat they 
are lefs ufed, as being more intricate. 
Analysis is likewife ufed for a brief, but methodical, 
illuftration of the principles of a fcience ; in which fenfe 
it is nearly fynonymous with what we otherwife call a 
Jynobfts. 
ANALY'TICAL, adj. That which refolves any tiling 
into firft principles'; that which feparates any compound. 
That which proceeds Gy analyfis, or by taking tlie parts of 
a compound into diftinft and particular confideration.— 
Tefcartes Irath here infinitely outdone all the philcfophers 
that went before him, in giving a particular and analytical 
account of the univerfal fabric: yet he intends his prin¬ 
ciples but for hypotlrefes. GlanvilU. 
ANALY'TICALLY, adv. In fuch a manner as fepa¬ 
rates compounds into limples. 
ANALY'TIC, adj [tzva,Xvriy.®' y Gr.] The manner of 
•refolving compounds into the fimple conftituent or compo- 
aient parts; applied chiefly to mental operations .—Analytic 
method takes the whole compound as it finds it, whether 
it be a fpecies or an individual, and leads us into the know¬ 
ledge of it, by refolying into its firft principles, or parts, 
its generic nature and its fpecial properties; and therefore 
it is called the method of refolution. Watts. 
To A'NALYZE, v. a. {of aw and Gr. toloofen,] 
To refolve a compound into its firft principles.—Chemiftry 
enabling us to depurate bodies, and, in lome meafure, to 
analyze them, and take afunder their heterogeneous parts, 
in many chemical experiments, we may, better than in 
others, know what manner of bodies we employ; art hav¬ 
ing made them more fimple or uncompounded, than nature 
alone is wont to prefent them to us. Boyle .—To analyze the 
immorality of any action into its laft principles; if it be 
•enquired, why fuch an action is to be avoided, the imme¬ 
diate anfwev is, becaufe it is fin. Norris .—When the fen- 
tence is diftinguiflied into fubjeft and predif ate, propofi- 
tion, argumeht, aft, objeft, caufe, effieft, adj .met, oppofite, 
,&c. then it is analyzed analogically and metaphylically. 
This laft is what is chiefly meant in the theological fchools, 
ivjicn they (peak of analyzing, a. text oi fcripture. Walts. 
A'NALYZER,yi That which has the power of ana¬ 
lyzing.—Particular reafons incline me to doubt, whether 
the fire be the true and univerfal analyzer of mixt bodies. 
Boyle. 
ANAMABO'A, a populous town of the kingdom of 
Fantin, in Guinea. The country at Anamaboa is full of 
bills, beginning at a good diftance from the town, and af¬ 
fording a very pleafant profpeft. Indian corn and palm- 
wine are in great plenty. They have a green fruit called 
papas, as big as a fmall melon, and which has a tafte like 
cauliflower. Anamaboa is much frequented by the Englifh 
ihips for corn and llaves, which laft are fometimes to be 
had in great numbers. The Englifh fort is a large edifice, 
flanked by tw o towers, and fortified towards the fea with 
two haftions. It is mounted with twelve pieces of cannon 
and twelve patereroes, and defended by a garrilon under 
the command of the chief factor. The natives fometimes 
treat the garrifon of this fort with great infolence. In 
1701, they declared waragainft the Englifh; and, having 
affembled in a tumultuous manner before the fort, they fet 
fire to the exterior buildings, and went on with their out¬ 
rages, till they were difperfed by a difeharge of the can¬ 
non from the batteries. The night following the Englifh 
took their revenge, by fetting fire to the town of Anama¬ 
boa; and thus hoftilities continued for twenty days, till at 
laft the natives were obliged to fue for peace. This fort 
was abandoned in 1733; but has been refumed by the 
Englifh, who have; maintained it ever fince. 
ANA'MELECH, an idol of the Sepharvaites, who are 
faid in Scripture to have burned their children in honour of 
Adrammelech and Anamelech. Thefe idols probably fig- 
hified the fun and moon. Some of the rabbins xeprefent 
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Anamelech under she figure of a mule, others under that 
of a quail or pheafant. 
ANA'MIM, the fecond Ion of Mizraim (Gen. x. 13). 
Anamim, if we may credit the paraphraft Jonathan the Ion 
of Uzziel, peopled the Mareotis; or the Pentapolis of 
Cyrene, according the paraphraft of jeriifalem. Bochart 
is of opinion, that thefe Anamims were the people that 
dwelt in tlie parts adjacent to the temple of Jupiter Am¬ 
mon, and in tlie Nafamonitis. Calmet thinks the Ama- 
nians and Garamantes to be defeended from Anamim. 
ANAMNES'TICA^A [aw, and//.wo/zau, Gr. recorder, 
to remember.] Medicines which are faid to improve the 
memory, or reftore it when loft. .This is a general title, 
and feems, like many others, to have no foundation aj; all, 
but confounds tlie practice of phyfic; for, as this defect 
of memory may depend upon different caufes, and fuch 
as may require different, nay oppofite, remedies, Undents 
cannot be properly inftrufted, unlefs remedies are pointed 
out as fuited to the particular caufe and peculiar circum- 
flances of the difeafe ; and this obfervation will hold good 
ina variety of other inftances. 
AN AMOR'PHOSIS,_/l [of aw and y.op(paai^ of ,«cpip'/? s 
Gr. form or fliape.] In perfpeftive drawings, is a deform¬ 
ed or diftorted portrait or figure, generally confuted and 
unintelligible to the common unaftifted view ; but when 
fcen to a certain diftance and height, or as refiefted from 
a plain or curved mirror, will appear regular and in right 
proportion. 
ANA'NAS,/! in botany. SeeBROMELiA. 
ANANCI'TIS,yi in antiquity, a kind of figured ftone,. 
otherwife called Jynochitic , celebrated for its magical virtue 
of railing the fhadows of the infernal gods. 
-ANAN'DRIA,/ in botany. See Tussilago. 
ANANI'AH, [rmjy.Heb. of py acloudoranfwer, and 
fit the Lord, i.e. the cloud or divination of tlie Lord.] 
A proper name of a man. 
ANANIAS, a Sadducee, high-prieftof the Jews, who 
put to deatli St. James the brother of our Lord, and was 
depofed by Agrippa. 
ANANISAB'TA, or Ananisap'ta^/I a magical word 
frequently found inferibed on coins and other amulets, fup- 
pofed to have a virtue of preferving the wearer from the 
plague. 
ANANTHOCY'CLUS,/ in botany. See Cotula. 
ANAPZE'ST, f. [awTrairo;, Gr. of «w again, and 
to ftrike.J In ancient poetry, afootcoufiflingof two 
fliort fyllables and one long. Such is the word “fcopfilos. 1 * 
It is juft the reverfe of the dadlyh 
ANAPzE'STIC VERSES, thofe confining wholly or 
chiefly of anapaefts. 
ANA'PHE, an ifland which fpontaneoufly emerged out 
of the Cretan fea, near Thera; now called Nanfio. Its 
name is from the hidden appearance of the new moon to 
the Argonauts in a ftorm. 
ANAPH ONE'S IS, f. [ from aw, and cpuv/i, vox.~] Afpe- 
ciesof exercife which conftfted in vociferation. Itexerci- 
fes the breaft and organs of fpeech, increafes tlie natural 
heat, improves the complexion, and is ufeful for the phleg¬ 
matic. It is commended to tliofe who have the heart¬ 
burn, bad digeftion, and W'ant of appetite, the cacheftic, 
&c. but Tinging is. yet a gentler exercife. See Hie.roii 
Mercurialis de Arte Gymnaftica. 
ANA'PHORA,/ [aw<po§a, Gr. of aw, and to 
bear.] A figure, when feveral claufes of a fentence are 
begun with the fame word or found ; as, “ Where is the wife ? 
Where is the feribe? Where is the difpnter of this world?’ 1 ’ 
Anaphora, in aftrology, tlie fecond houfe, or tliat 
part of the heavens which is thirty degrees from the ho- 
rofeope. The term anaphora is alfo fometimes applied 
•promifcuoivfly to fome of the fucceeding houfes, as the 
fifth, the eighth, and the eleventh. In this fenfe anaphora 
is the fame as epanaphora, and Hands oppofed to cataphora. 
Anaphora, among phyficians, the throwing oft'puru¬ 
lent matter by the mouth. 
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ANAPHRODI'SIA, 
