A dictionary of the English language: in which the words are deduced from their originals, and illustrated in their different significations by examples from the best writers : to which are prefixed a history of the language, and an English grammar (Volume 1).

Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784.

Date:: 1819

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$Anaooge'tical, an-a-go-jet'e-kal. adj. \ju>uyti*/i>.] That which contributes or relates to spiritual elevation or religious raptures; mysterious; elevated above humanity. Diet. Anago'gioal, an-a-god'jik-al.609 adj. [anagogique, Fr.] Mysterious; eleva- ted; religiously exalted. Diet. Anago'gically, an-a-god'je-kal-e. adv. [from aaagogical.] Mysteriously; with religious elevation. A'NAGRAM, atva-gram. n.s. [*v« and yf »fAf*.*.] A conceit arising from the let- ters of a name transposed; as this, of W,i,l,l,i,a,m, N,o,y, attorney-general to Charles I. a very laborious man, Imoyl in law. Though all her parts be not in th' usual place, She hath yet the anagrams of a good face: If we might put the Tetters but one way, In that lean dearth of words what could we say ? Donne. Thy genius calls thee not to purchase fame In keen iambick, but mild anagram. Dryden. Anagra'mmatism, an-a-gram'ma-tism,43* n. s. [from anagram^] The act or prac- tice of making anagrams. The only quintessence that hitherto the alchymy of wit could draw out of names, is anagrammatism, or metagrammatism, which is a dissolution of a name truly written into his letters, as his elements, and a new connexion of it by artificial transposi- tion, without addition, subtraction, or change of any letter, into different words, making some perfect sense appliable to the person named. Camden. Anagra'mmatist,an-a-gram'ma-tist. n. s. [from anagram.'] A maker of anagrams. To Anagha'mmatize, an4-gram'ma- tize.169 v. n. [anagramnlaliser, Fr.] To make anagrams. Anale'ptick, an-a-lep'tik. adj. [«v«Ajj?t- 7i'je(3^.] Comforting; corroborating: a term of physick. Jlndeptick medicines cherish the nerves, and re- new the spirits and strength. Quincy. Ana'logal, an-a'16-gal. adj. [from ana- logous.'] Analogous; having relation. When I see many analogal motions in animals, though I cannot call them voluntary, yet I see them spontaneous, I have reason to conclude that these in their principle are not simply mechanical. Hah. Analo'gical, an-a-lod'je-kal. adj. [from analogy.] f. Used by way of analogy. It seems pro- perly distinguished from analogous, as words from things; analogous signifies having relation, and analogical having the quality of representing relation. It is looked on only as the image of the true God, and that not as a proper likeness, but by analogical representation. Stilling fleet. When a word, which originally signifies any parti- cular idea or object, is attributed to several other objects, not by way of resemblance, but on the ac- count of some evident reference to the original idea, this is peculiarly called an analogical word; so a sound or healthy pulse, a sound digestion, sound sleep, are so Called; with reference to a sound and healthy constitution; but if you speak of sound doc- trine, or-sound speech, this is byway of resemblance to health, and the words are' metaphorical. Watts. 2. Analogous; having resemblance or rela- tion'. There is placed the minerals between the inani- mate and vegetable province, participating some- thing analogical to either. Mule's Grig, of Mankind. Analogically, an-a-16dje-e-k£l-e. adv. [from analogical.] In an analogical man- ner; in an analogous manner. I am convinced, from the simplicity and unifor- mity of the Divine Nature, and of all his works, that there is some one universal principle, running through the whole system of creatures analogically, and con- gruous to their relative natures. Cheyne. Analo'gioalness, an-a-lodje-e-kal-ness. n. s. [from analogical.] The quality of being analogical; fitness to be applied for the illustration of some analogy. ANA'LoGisMjan-al'lo-jizm. n. s. \_mx\oyTi- jtaj.] An argument from the cause to the effect. To ANA'LOGizE^n-nal'lo-jize. v. a. [from analogy^] To explain by way of analogy; to form some resemblance between dif- ferent things; to consider something with regard to its analogy with some- what else. We have systems of material bodies, diversly figur- ed and situated, if separately considered; they re- present the object of the desire, which is analogized by attraction or gravitation. Cheyne. Analogous, a-nal'lo-gus.314 adj. \_met and My®*.] 1. Having analogy; bearing some resem- blance or proportion; having something parallel. Exercise makes things easy, that would be other- wise very hard; as, in labour, watchings, heats, and colds; and then there is something analogous in the exercise of the mind to that of the body. It is folly and infirmity that makes us delicate and froward. VEstrange. Many important consequences may be drawn from the observation of the most common things, and ana- logous reasonings from the causes of them. .Irbuth. 2. It has the word to before the thing to which the resemblance is noted. This incorporeal substance may have some sort of existence, analogous to corporeal extension: though we have no adequate conception hereof. Locke. ANALOGY, a-nal'16-je.618 n. s. [xvxXo- yta.] 1. Resemblance between things with re- gard to some circumstances or effects; as, learning is said to enlighten the mind; that is, it is to the mind what light is to the eye, by enabling it to discover that which was hidden before. From God it hath proceeded, that the church hath evermore held a prescript form of common prayer, although not in all things every where the same, yet, for the most part, retaining the same analogy^ Hooker. What I here observe of extraordinary revelation and prophecy, will, by analogy and due proportion, extend even to those communications of God's will, that are requisite to salvation. South. 2. When the thing to which the analogy is supposed, happens to be mentioned, analogy has after it the particles to or with; when both the things are men- tioned after analogy, the particle be- tween or betwixt is used. If the body politiek have any analogy to the natu- ral, an act of oblivion were necessary in a hot dis- tempered state. Dryden. By analogy with all other liquors and'eoncretions, the form of the chaos, whether liquid or concrete, could not be the same with that of the present earth. Burnet's Theory. If we make Juvenal express the customs of our country, rather than of Rome, it is when there was some analogy betvoixt the customs. Dryden. 3. By grammarians, it is used to signify the agreement of several words in one common mode; as, from love is formed loved; from hate, hated; from grieve, grieved. Ana'lysis, 4-nal'le-sis. n. s. [*v«At/<r/$.] 1. A separation of a compound body into the several parts of which it consists. There is an account of dew falling, in some places, in the form of butter, or grease, which grows ex- tremely fetid; so that the analysis of the dew of any place, may, perhaps, be the best method of finding such contents of the soil as are within the reach of the sun. Jlrbuthnot. 2. A consideration of any thing in parts, so as that one particular is first consi- dered, then another. Analysis consists in making experiments and ob- servations, and in drawing general conclusions from them by induction, and admitting of no objections but such as are taken from experiments, or other certain truths. Newton's Opticks. 3. A solution of any thing, whether corpo- real or mental, to its first elements; as, of a sentence to the single words; of a compound word, to the particles and words which form it; of a tune, to sin- gle notes; of an argument, to simple propositions. We cannot know any tiling of nature, but by an analysis of its true initial causes, till we know the first springs of natural motions, we are still but ig- norants. Glanville. Analytical, an-S-lir/e-kal. adj. [from analysis.] 1. That which resolves any thing into first principles; that which separates any compound. See Analysis. Either may be probably maintained against the inaccurateness of the analytical experiments vulgar- ly relied on. Boyle. 2. That which proceeds by analysis, or by taking the parts of a compound into dis- tinct and particular consideration. Descartes hath here infinitely outdone all the philosophers that went before him, in giving a par- ticular and analytical account of the universal fa- brick: yet he intends his principles but for hypothe- ses. Glanville. Analytically, an-a-lit'te-kal-le. adv. [from analytical.] In such a manner as separates compounds into simples. See Analysis. Analy'tiok, an-S-llt'lk. adj. [«v*At/7<x©-.] The manner of resolving compounds in- to the simple constituent or component parts, applied chiefly to mental opera- tions. He was in logick a great critiek, Profoundly skill'd in anutytick. Hudibras. Jlnalytick method takes the whole compound as it finds it, whether it be a species or an individual, and leads us into the knowledge of it, by resolving into its first principles, or parts, its generick nature, and its special properties; and therefore it is called the method of its resolution. Watts's Logick. To A'NALYZE, an'a-lize. v. a. [xyxXvu.] To resolve a compound into its first principles. See Analysis. Chemistry enabling us to depurate bodies, and in some measure, to analyze them, and take asunder their heterogeneous parts, in many chymical expe- riments, we may, better than in others, know what manner of bodies we employ; art having made them more simple or uncompounded, than nature atone is wont to present them us. Boyle$