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 ANA ANA ( u [O ) tifm in Jordan, Mat. iii. 16. Mark i. 9, 10. and of ANABROSIS, fignifies a corrofion by acrid humours. the eunuch’s, Afts viii. 38, 39. and the reafon of ANACA, in ornithology, an obfolete name of a fpecies John’s baptizing in Enon, John iii. 23. Hence they of pfittacus. Psittacus. affirm, that no other mode can be called baptifm,or fo ANACALYPTERIA, in antiquity, feftivals among the fitly reprefent communion with (Thrift in his death, Greeks on the day that the bride was permitted to lay burial, and refurre&ion, which is exprefsly the defign alide her veil, and appear in public. The word is derived from a verb which fignifies to uncover. of baptifm, Rom. vi. 3,4, 5. Great troubles were occafioned in Germany by fome ANACAMPSEROS, in botany, a fynonyme of the who profefled this tenet.; but of all places where they portulaca, and feveral other plants. prevailed, none fuffered fo much by them as the town ANACAMPTERIA, in ecclefiaftical antiquity, a kind of Munfter. The Anabaptifls, however, of Holland of little edifices adjacent to the churches, defigned for and Frizland difapp roved of their feditious behaviour: the entertainment of ftrahgers and poor perfons. and at prefent, though this fedt ftill fubfifts, as well in ANACAMPTIC, a name applied by the ancients to that Britain as abroad, yet they no longer pretend to be di- part of optics which treats of reflection, being the vinely infpired; they no longer oppofe magiftrates, nor fame with what is now called catoptrics. See Catpreach up a community of goods. Thofe of them in optrics. England differ very little from the Proteftant diffent- ANACARDIUM, or Cashew-nut-tree, in botany, ers, except in rejefting infant-baptifm; as appears a genus of the decandria monogynia clafs, of which there is but one fpecies, viz. the occidentale, a native from their conleffion of faith publifhed 1689. Within thefe four years, the Anabaptifts have form- of the Indies. The calix is divided into five parts ; ed a congregation in Edinburgh, (which is the firft ap- the flower confifts of one quinquefide petal; the fruit pearance they ever made in Scotland)^ and feem to be is a kidney-lhaped nut, inclofed in a fleftiy receptacle. a ferious inoffenfive people. They pray for the king The kernel is of the fame nature with an' almond: and all inferior magilfrates, and fubjedt themfelves (in The acrid juice contained between the kernels is recivil matters) to' every ordinance of man, for the commended for tetters and other cutaneous difeafes". fignifies a faiivation, or difeharge Lord’s fake. They confider the kingdom of Chrift ANACATHARSIS, to be fpiritual, and not of this world; and are ftridfly of noxious humours by fpitting. upon the congregational or independent plan, admitting ANACATHARTICS, properly fignify fuch medicines of no jurifdidtion or authority (in matters of'religion) as promote the difeharge of faliva. but that of the Great Lawgiver. Their church-offi- ANACEPHALALOSIS, in rhetoric, the fame with recers are bifhops (or elders) and deacons, and thefe capitulation. See Recapitulation. they generally chufe from among themfelves. They ANACHIMOIJSSI, a country in the iiland of Madamake the reading of the fcriptures a part of their pu- gafear, bordering on the fouth with Manaboule. blic fervice, and eat the Lord’s fupper every fabbath- ANACHORET, in church-hiftory, denotes a hermit, or day. Their difciples, before they are admitted into fblitary monk, who retires from the fociety of mancommunion, are firft baptized in the Water of Leith, kind into fome defart, with a view to avoid the tempworld, and to be more at leifure for mewhich they do at all feafons of the year; and, on thefe tations ofandtheprayer. occafions, they are generally attended by a great num- ditation Such were Paul, Anthony, and Hilarion, the firft ber of fpedtators *. of monaftic life, in Egypt and Paleftine. ANABLEPS, in'ichthyology, the trivial name of a fpe- founders Anachorets, among the Greeks, confift principally cies of cobitis. See Cobitis. ANABOLiEUM, or Anabole, in antiquity, a kind of of monks, who retire to caves or cells, with the leave great or upper coat, worn over the tunica. See Tu- of the abbot, and an allowance from the monaftery; or who, weary of the fatigues of the monafttry, purnica. ANABOLEUS, in antiquity, an appellation given to chafe a fpot of ground, to which they retreat, never grooms of the liable, or equerries, who aflilted their appearing again in the monaftery, unlefs on folemn ocmailers in mounting their horfes. As the ancients cafions. had no ftirrups, or inftruments that are now in ufe for ANACHRONISM, in matters of literature, an error mounting a horfe, they either jumped upon his back, with refpedt to chronology, whereby an event is placed earlier than it really happened, in which fenfe it Hands or were aided in mounting by anabolei. ANABROCHISMUS, an obfolete term among phyfici- oppofed to •Paracbronifm. ASTICS, that part of optics wdiich confiders the ans, for removing offenfive hairs from the eye-lids. ANACL refradlion of light. See Refraction, and Optics. ANACLASTIC glaffes. See Glass. r ds we chufe to avoid every kind of mifreprefenta- ANACLETERIA, in antiquity, a folemn feftival • celetion, efpecially in matters of religious opinion ; and as brated by the ancients when their kings or princes the n/oji genuine and fatisfattory account of the origin came of age, and affumed the reins of government. and principles of any fett is to be e pefted from them- It is fo called, becaufe proclamation being made ' of fclves; swe applied to the preachers of the Anabaptijl this event to the people, they went to fahite their congregation at Edinburgh, from •whom we had the prince during the anacleteria, and to congratulate him above account—'The fame conduit will be obferved with upon his new dignity. ANA* .regard to every other fell of any note.