ANALOGIST
ANAL'OGIST, noun One who adheres to analogy.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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ANALOGIZE
ANAL'OGIZE, verb transitive To explain by analogy; to form some resemblance between different things; to consider a thing with regard to its analogy to something else.
ANALOGOUS
ANAL'OGOUS, adjective Having analogy; bearing some resemblance or proportion; followed by to; as, there is something in the exercise of the mind analogues to that of the body.
ANALOGY
ANAL'OGY, noun [Gr. ratio, proportion.]1. an agreement or likeness between things in some circumstances or effects, when the things are otherwise entirely different. Thus a plan...
ANALYSIS
ANAL'YSIS, noun [Gr. a loosing, or resolving, from to loosen. See Loose.]1. The separation of a compound body into its constituent parts; a resolving; as, an analysis of water, ...
ANALYST
AN'ALYST, noun One who analyzes, or is versed in analysis.
ANALYTIC
ANALYT'IC,ANALYT'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to analysis; that resolves into first principles; that separates into parts or original principles; that resolves a compound body or ...
ANALYTICAL
ANALYT'ICAL, a. Pertaining to analysis; that resolves into first principles; that separates into parts or original principles; that resolves a compound body or subject; as, an a...
ANALYTICALLY
ANALYT'ICALLY, adverb In the manner of analysis; by way of separating a body into its constituent parts, or a subject, into its principles.
ANALYTICS
ANALYT'ICS, noun The science of analysis. [See Analysis.]
ANALYZE
AN'ALYZE, verb transitive [Gr. See Analysis.]To resolve a body into its elements; to separate a compound subject into its parts or propositions, for the purpose of an examinatio...
ANALYZED
AN'ALYZED, participle passive Resolved into its constituent parts or principles, for examination.
ANALYZER
AN'ALYZER, noun One who analyzes; that which analyzes or has the power to analyze.
ANALYZING
AN'ALYZING, participle present tense Resolving into elements, constituent parts, or first principles.
ANAMORPHOSIS
ANAMORPHOSIS, noun [Gr. formation.]In perspective drawings, a deformed or distorted portrait or figure, which, in one point of view, is confused or unintelligible, and in anothe...
ANANAS
ANA'NAS, noun The name of a species of Bromelia, the pine-apple.
ANAPEST
AN'APEST, noun [Gr to strike.]In poetry, a foot, consisting of three syllables, the two first short, the last long; the reverse of the dactyl; as,Can a bosom so gentle remainUnm...
ANAPESTIC
ANAPEST'IC, noun The anapestic measure.ANAPEST'IC, adjective Pertaining to an anapest; consisting of anapestic feet.
ANAPHORA
ANAPH'ORA, noun [Gr.]1. A figure in rhetoric, when the same word or words are repeated at the beginning of two or more succeeding verses or clauses of a sentence; as, 'Where is ...
ANAPLEROTIC
ANAPLEROT'IC, adjective [Gr. to fill.] Filling up; supplying or renovating flesh.ANAPLEROT'IC, noun A medicine which renews flesh or wasted parts.
ANARCH
AN'ARCH, noun [See Anarchy.] The author of confusion; one who excites revolt.
ANARCHIC
ANARCH'IC,ANARCH'ICAL, adjective Without rule or government; in a state of confusion; applied to a state or society. Fielding uses anarchial, a word of less difficult pronunciat...
ANARCHICAL
ANARCH'ICAL, a. Without rule or government; in a state of confusion; applied to a state or society. Fielding uses anarchial, a word of less difficult pronunciation.
ANARCHIST
AN'ARCHIST, noun An anarch; one who excites revolt, or promotes disorder in a state.
ANARCHY
AN'ARCHY, noun [Gr. rule.]Want of government; a state of society, when there is no law or supreme power, or when the laws are not efficient, and individuals do what they please ...
ANARHICHAS
ANAR'HICHAS, noun The sea wolf; a genus of ravenous fish, of the order of Apodals, found in the northern seas.
ANAS
A'NAS, noun [Latin] A genus of water fowl of the order Anseres; including the swans, geese, and ducks. The species are very numerous.