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An`a*pæst (&?;), An`a*pæs"tic (&?;). Same as Anapest, Anapestic.

An"a*pest (&?;), n. [L. anapaestus, Gr. &?; an anapest, i.e., a dactyl reserved, or, as it were, struck back; fr. &?;; &?; back + &?; to strike.] 1. (Pros.) A metrical foot consisting of three syllables, the first two short, or unaccented, the last long, or accented ( -); the reverse of the dactyl. In Latin d- -ts, and in English in-ter-vene\'b6, are examples of anapests.

2. A verse composed of such feet.

An`a*pes"tic (&?;), a. [L. anapaesticus, Gr. &?;.] Pertaining to an anapest; consisting of an anapests; as, an anapestic meter, foot, verse. -- n. Anapestic measure or verse.

An`a*pes"tic*al (&?;), a. Anapestic.

||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.

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

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

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

An`a*plas"tic (&?;), a. Of or pertaining to 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.

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.

A*nap"no*graph (&?;), n. [Gr. &?; respiration + -graph.] A form of spirometer.

An`ap*no"ic (&?;), a. [Gr. &?; respiration.] (Med.) Relating to respiration.

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

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

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

||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.

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.

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.

{ 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.

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

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

An"arch*ize (&?;), v. t. To reduce to anarchy.

An"arch*y (&?;), n. [Gr. &?;: cf. F. anarchie. See Anarch.] 1. Absence of government; the state of society where there is no law or supreme power; a state of lawlessness; political confusion.

Spread anarchy and terror all around. Cowper.