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.