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

Credit: 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). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$To analyze the immorality of any action into its last principles; if it be enquired, Why such an action is to be avoided? the immediate answer is, Because it is sin. Norr-is's Miscel. When the sentence is distinguished into subject and predicate, proposition, argument, act, object, cause, effect, adjunct, opposite, t$(c. then it is ana- lyzed analogically and metaphysically. The last is what is chiefly meant in the theological schools; when they speak of analyzing a text of scripture. Watls^s Logick. A'nalyzer, an'a-li-zur.98 n. s. [from To analyze.] That which has the power of analyzing. Particular reasons incline me to doubt, whether the fire be the true and universal analyzer of mixt bodies. Boyle. AjYAMORPHO'SIS, an-a-mor-fo'sis.*20 n. s. [ctv« and fioatplu.] Deformation; a perspective projection of any thing, so that to the eye, at one point of view, it shall appear deformed, in another, an exact and regular representation. Some- times it is made to appear confused to the naked eye, and regular, when view- ed in a mirrour of a certain form. ANA'JYAS, a-na'nas. n. s. The pine-apple. The species are, 1. Oval-shaped pine-apple, with a whitish flesh. 2. Pyramidal pine-apple, with a yellow flesh. 3. Pine-apple, with smooth leaves. 4. Pine-apple, with shining green leaves, and scarce any spines on their edges. 5. The olive-coloured pine. Miller. Witness thou best anana, thou the pride Of vegetable life, beyond whate'er The poets imag'd in the golden age. Thomson. AJVA'NAS, a-na'nas, wild. The same with penguin. See PEJVG UIJY. A'napjEST, an'a-peest. s. A foot in poetry, consisting of two short and one long syl- lable, the reverse of a dactyl. ANA'PHO RA, a-naf-f6-ra.92 n. s. [um<po- %*.] A figure, when several clauses of a sentence are begun with the same word or sound; as, Whtre is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the dis- fiuter of this world? Anaplero'tick, a-na-ple-rot'ik. adj. [uvu- ■n-\n%oa7] That which fills up any vacui- ty; used of applications which promote flesh. A'NARCH, an'ark.3*3 n. s. [See Anarchy.] An author of confusion. Him thus the anarch old, With fault'nug speech, and visage incompos'd, Answer'd. Milton. Ana'rchioal, an-ar'ke-kal. adj. [from anarchy.'] Confused; without rule or government. In this anarchical and rebellious state of human nature, the faculties belonging to the material world presume to determine the nature of subjects belong- ing to the supreme spirit. Cheyne. A'narchy, an'ar-ke. n. s. [«v<*f^/«.] Want of government; a state in which every man is unaccountable; a state without magistracy. Where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand. Milton. Arbitrary power is but the first natural step from anarchy, or the savage life; the adjusting power and freedom being an effect and consequence of maturer thinking. Swi/<- AjVASA'RCA, an-a-sar'ka.92 n. s. [from «v* and 5-«f|.] A sort of dropsy, where the whole substance is stuffed with pitu- itous humours. Quincy. When the lympha stagnates, or is extravasated under the skin, it is called an anasarca. »1rbulhnot. Anasa'rcous, an-a-sar'kus.sl* adj. [from anasarca.] Relating to an anasarca; par- taking of the nature of an anasarca. A gentlewoman laboured of an ascites, with an anasarcous swelling of her belly, thighs, and legs. Wiseman. Anastoma'tick, an-as-to-mat'ik. adj. [from «v« and rifix.] That which has the quality of opening the vessels, or of removing obstructions. AJYASTOMO'SIS, an-as-to-mo'sis. n. s. [from «v* and ropa..] The inosculation of vessels, or the opening of one vessel into another; as, of the arteries into the veins. AJYA'STROPHE, a-nas'tro-fe.518 n. s. [<*v«sf e<z>>;, a preposterous placing, from «v«rf££>*'•] A figure whereby words which should have been precedent, are postponed. AJYA'THEMA,-d-njLth'e-ma.»2 n. s. \_ctva- S-e/ucct.] 1. A curse pronounced by ecclesiastical authority; excommunication. Her bare anathemas fall but like so many bruta fubnma upon the schismatical; who think them- selves shrewdly hurt, forsooth, by being cut off from the body, which they choose not to be of. South. 2. The object of the curse, or person cursed. This seems the original mean- ing, though now little used. Anathema'tjcal, an-a-^//e/mat/e-kal.50!) adj. [from anathema.] That which has the properties of an anathema; that which relates to an anathema. Anathema'tically, an-a-^/ie-mat'e-kal- 16. adv. [from anatht matical.] In an ana- thematical manner. To Anathe'matize, an-a^'e-ma-tize.lrj<J ■v. a. [from anathema.] To pronounce accursed by ecclesiastical authority; to excommunicate. They were therefore to be anathematized, and,with detestation, branded and banished out of the church. Hammond. Anati'ferous, an-a-tiffe-rus. adj. [from anas and fero, Lat.] Producing ducks Not in use. If there be anatiferons trees, whose corruption breaks forth into barnacles; yet, if they corrupt, they degenerate into maggots, which produce not them again. Brown's Vulgar Errours. Ana'tocisw, a-nat'to-sizm n. s. [anatocis- mus, Lat. ctvu.1oy.t3-f4.oi.] The accumula- tion of interest upon interest; the addi- tion of the interest due for money lent to the original sum. A species of usury generally forbidden. Anato'mical, an-a-tom'e-kal. adj. [from anatomy.] 1. Relating or belonging to anatomy. When we are taught by logick to view a thing completely in all its parts, by the help of division, it has the use of an anatomical knife, which dissects an animal body, and separates the veins, arteries, nerves, muscles, membranes, fyc. and shews us the several parts which go to the composition of a com- plete animal. Watts's Logick. A N A 2. Proceeding upon principles taught in anatomy; considered as the object of anatomy. There is a natural, involuntary distortion of th» muscles, which is the anatomical cause of laughter but there is another cause of laughter, which decen- cy requires. Swift. 3. Anatomized; dissected; separated. The continuation of solidity is apt to be confound- ed with, and, if we will look into the minute o««- tomical parts of matter, is little different from hard- ness. ^ Locke. Anato'mically, an-a-tom'e-kal-le. adv. [from anatomical.] In an anatomical manner; in the sense of an anatomist- according to the doctrine of anatomy. While some affirmed it had no gall, intending only thereby no evidence of anger or fury, others have construed anatomically, and denied that part at all. Brown's Vulgar Errours. Ana'tomist, a-nat'6-mlst. n.s. [ivo^i;.] He that studies the structure of animal bodies, by means of dissection; he that divides the bodies of animals, to disco- ver the various parts. Anatomists adjudged, that if nature had been suf- fered to run her own course, without this fatal inter- ruption, he might have doubled his age. Howel. Hence when anatomists discourse, How like brutes organs are to ours; They grant, if higher powers think fit, A bear might soon be made a wit; And that, for any thing in nature, Pigs might squeak love odes, dogs bark satire. Prim. To Ana'tomizr, a-nat'to-mize. v.a.[xt»- le/Mu.] 1. To dissect an animal; to divide the body into its component or constituent parts. Our industry must even anatomize every particle of that body, which we are to uphold. Hooker. 2. To lay any thing open distinctly, and by minute parts. I speak but brotherly of him, but should I ana- tomize him to thee as he is, I must blush and weep, and then must look pale and wonder. Shatep. Then dark distinctions Reason's light disguis'd, And into atoms Truth anatomized. Denham ANA'TOMY, a-nat'o-me.'18 n. s. [«v«- TofAICt.] 1. The art of dissecting the body. It is proverbially said, Formicct sua bilis, inest habct et mnsca splenem; whereas these parts anatomy hath not discovered in insects. Brown^s Vulg. Err. It is therefore in the anatomy of the mind, as in that of the body; more good will accrue to man- kind, by attending to the large, open, and percepti- ble parts, than by studying too much such finer nervei and vessels, as will for ever escape our observation. Pope. 2. The doctrine of the structure of the bo- dy, learned by dissection. Let the muscles be well inserted and bound toge- ther, according to the knowledge of them which is given us by anatomy. Dryitn. 3. The act of dividing any thing, whether corporeal or intellectual. When a moneyed man hath divided his chests, he seemeth to himself richer than he was; therefore, a way to amplify any thing, is to break it, and to make anatomy of it in several parts. Bacon. 4. The body stripped of its integuments; a skeleton. O that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth, Then with a passion I would shake the world, And rouze from sleep that fell anatomy, Which cannot hear a feeble lady's voice. Shaksp 5. By way ol irony or ridicule, a thin mea- gre person.$