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tumults and feditions at Conftantinople as threatened the 
life of the emperor himfelf; who* to keep the people in 
awe, ordered that the governor of the city fhould be pre- 
fent at all chnrch-affemblies and public proceffions. This 
was fo much the more necetfary, becaufe thefe tumults 
were chiefly occafioned by a kind of doxology or fliort 
hymn which ufed to be fung at divine fervice. This dox¬ 
ology confided only of the following words, Ayio? 0 ©£oc, 
etyio; i%vgoc, u.yio<; aScstaro;, that is, “ Holy God, holy the 
powerful, holy the immortal;” for which reafon it was 
Called rgicnzyioi;, trifagius , “three times holy;” becaufe 
the word holy was therein three times repeated. The or¬ 
thodox ufed to fing that hymn without any addition, or by 
adding only to it, A.yia Tgiaj, ster,<rov i. e. “ Holy 
Trinity have mercy upon us.” But Peter the Fuller, bi- 
ihop of Antioch, pretended to add thefe words to it, viz. 
o o* >>ua;, i. e. “ who haft been crucified for us 
and it was fuppofed that the firft holy related to the Fa¬ 
ther, the fecond to the Son, the third to the Holy Ghoft, 
the adding thefe words, mho haJL been crucified for us, teem¬ 
ed to infinuate that the whole co.nfubftantial Trinity had 
fulfered; for which reafon the orthodox were refolved not 
to admit this addition. Anaftafius, defiling to have thole 
fatal words added to that hymn whenever it fhould be fung 
at Conftantinople, occafioned a terrible fedition in the city, 
as though the very fundamentals of Chriftianity had been 
overthrown. Macedonius and his clergy are faid to have 
railed that fedition, which came to fuch a height, that the 
emperor himfelf was obliged to come, without his crown 
on his head, and in a moll humble manner, to the Circus, 
where he declared to the people that he was very willing 
to quit the imperial throne; but he told them at the fame 
time, that they could not all enjoy the fovereign power, 
which does not admit of a partnerlhip; and that one, per- 
fon ftill mull govern them if he refigned the crown. This 
difeourfe had fuch a power over the raging multitude, that, 
as if they had been divinely infpired, they immediately 
requefted the emperor to take up his crown, promifingthat 
they would be quiet and obedient for the future. As to 
the civil government of Anaftafius, it is confeft'ed that at 
the beginning of his reign he Ihewed himfelf a very good 
prince; he eafed the people of a very heavy tax called 
tkryfargyrum, under which they had groaned for a long 
time; he prohibited the fighting of wild beafts; he raifed 
feveral buildings; and he avoided war. He reigned twen¬ 
ty- feven years; and died July 10, 518, in the eighty-eighth 
year of his age. 
Anastasius, furnamed Bibliotkccarius , a Roman abbot, 
library-keeper of the Vatican, and one of the moft learned 
men of the ninth century, aflifted in 869 at the fourth ge¬ 
neral council, the acts and canons of which he tranflated 
from the Greek into Latin. He alfo compofed the lives 
of feveral popes, and other works; the belt edition of which 
is that of the Vatican. 
AN ASTA'TICA,/. [etsotcrlarnco^ Gr. from its quality 
of reviving in water.] In botany, a genus of the tetrady- 
namia filiculofa clafs, ranking in the natural order of fili- 
quofae or cruciformes. The generic characters are—Calyx : 
perianthium four-leaved, deciduous; leaflets ovate-oblong, 
concave, erect, deciduous. Corolla: tetrapetalous, cru¬ 
ciform; petals roundifti, flat, fpreading, with claws nearly 
the length of the calyx, but more fpreading. Stamina: 
filaments fix, fubulate, the length of the calyx, form ere6t 
fpreading; antherae roundifti. Piftillum: germ bifid, ve¬ 
ry fmall; ftyle fubulate, the length of the ftamens, per¬ 
manent; ftigma capitate. Pericarpium: a very fliort lili- 
cle; partition ending in a fubulate point, oblique, and 
longer than the filicle itfelf; the valves parallel, making 
.a cell of the lower half, but {landing out from the upper, 
rounded, concave, gaping, oblique, hence having the form 
of a Iheep’s hoof. Seeds: folitary, roundifti.— EJfential 
Charafl.tr. Silicic retufe, crowned at the edge with valves, 
.twice as long as the partition j ftyle intermediate, pointed, 
♦blique; cells one-feeded. 
ANA 
Species. 1. Anaftatica hierochuntiea, or common anaf- 
tatica or rofe of Jericho: leaves obtufe; fpikes axillary, 
very fliort; filicles hoofed, thorny. This plant grows na¬ 
turally or; the coafts of the Red Sea; in Paleftineand near 
Cairo, in fatidy places, The (talks are ligneous, though 
the plant is annual; it rifes five or fix inches high, divi¬ 
ding in many irregular branches. The flowers, which are 
fmall and white, are difpofed in fliort fpikes at the wings 
of the ftalks, and have little beauty; thefe are fucceeded 
by fliort prickly pods, having two cells, in each of which 
are two feeds. It is preferved in botanic gardens for the 
variety, and in fome curious gardens for the oddnefs, of the 
plant, which, if taken up before it is withered, and kept 
entire in a dry room, may be long preferved; and, after 
being many years in this fituation, if the root is placed in. 
a glafs of water a few hours, the buds of flowers will 
fwell open, and appear as if newly taken out of the ground. 
2 . Anaftatica Syriaca, or Syrian anaftatica: leaves acute, 
fpikes longer than the leaf, filicles ovate, beaked. It is a 
native of Auftria, Stiria, Carniola, Syria, and Sumatra; 
and w\ns introduced in 1788 by M. Thouin. Flowers in 
May and June. 
Propagation and Culture. Thefe plants being annual Can 
only be propagated by feeds, which rarely ripen in Eng¬ 
land, unlefs they be fown on a hot-bed in the fpring, and 
the plants afterward put into pots, which fliould be plun¬ 
ged into another hot-bed to bring them forward ; for, al¬ 
though the feeds will come up in the full ground where the 
foil is dry, yet the plants rarely rife to any fize, nor do 
they perfedt feeds unlefs the fummer is very hot and dry t 
but, if the plants are kept in a frame, giving them free 
air in warm weather, they will flower in June, and the 
feeds will ripen in September. 
ANASTOICHEIO'SlS,yi [from Gr. a princi¬ 
ple, or element, of which bodies are compofed. ] A wafting 
of the folids or fluids of the body. 
ANASTOMO'SIS, adv. [from atas-o^osi^ Gr. or avee 9 
per, and ro/^e, a mouth, alfo exanajlomofis ino[culatio.~\ To 
relax or open the mouths of the veifels. The opening of 
the mouths of the veflels to difeharge their contained fluids. 
Anatomifts ufe the word to exprefs the inofculation of the 
arteries and veins, or their running into one another. The 
menfes, &c. difeharged, are faid to be difeharged per anaf- 
tcnnofin, i. e. by opening the mouths of the veifels. The 
blood tranfuding through the fides of the veflels, the di¬ 
feharge is faid to be per diapedtfin, tranfudation. If the 
veflels are corroded by acrid humours, the difeharge is by 
diabrofis, erofion. 
ANASTOMA'TICS,yi Medicines fuppofed to have 
the power of opening the mouths of the veflels, and pro¬ 
moting the circulation; fuch as deobftruent, cathartic, and 
fudorific, medicines. 
ANASTRO'PHE, f. [ anar<;opr, Gr. of etna. and 
to turn. ] In rhetoric and graiumar, denotes the inverfion of 
the natural order of the words: fuch is, Jaxa per etfcopulos t 
for per faxa et fcopulos. 
ANAS'TROUS SIGlNS.y! inaftronomy, a name given 
to th e-duodecatemoria, or the twelve portions of the eclip- 
..tic, which the figns poffefled anciently, but have fince de- 
Terted by the preceflion of the equinox. 
ANA'SUS, or Ani'sus, now the Ens, a river df Ger¬ 
many; which, rifing on the borders of the territory of 
Saltzburg, then feparating Upper Stiria from Upper Auf¬ 
tria, and waffling the town of Ens, falls, at the diftance 
of a mile below it, into the Danube, in a courfe from fouth 
to north. 
ANA'THEMA,yi [anathcme,¥T. of awM-flaf**, of am- 
'nSnjzai, Gr. to renounce or give up to.] Among ecclefi 
aftical writers, it imports whatever is fet apart, Teparated, 
or divided; but is moft ufually meant to exprefs the cut¬ 
ting off a perfon from the privileges of fociety and com¬ 
munion with the faithful. The anathema differs from 
excommunication in the circumftances of being attended 
with curfes and execrations. It was praftifed in the pri¬ 
mitive 
