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 ANA ( i ANALOGICAL, in a general fenfe, denotes fomething belonging to, or partaking of the nature of analogy.— Hence, Analogical fyllogyfm, is one whofe force chiefly depends on the analogy between the two premifles. ANALOGISM, among logicians, the arguing from the caufe to the effect. ANALGISTA, among civilians, denotes a tutor who is not obliged to give an account of his conduct. ANALOGY, in matters of literature, a certain relation and agreement between two or more things, which in other refpefts are entirely different. .There is likewife an analogy between beings that have fome conformity or refemblance to one another; for example, between animals and plants ; but the analogy is ftill ftronger between two different fpecies of certain animals. Analogy enters much into all our reafoning, and ferves to explain and illuflrate. A great part of our philofophy has no other foundation than analogy, the utility of which confifts in foperfeding all rieceffity of examining minutely every particular body; for it fuffices us to know that every thing is governed by general and immutable laws, in order to regulate our condu£t with regard to all fimilar bodies, as we may reafonably believe that they are all endowed with the fame properties: Thus, we never doubt that the fruit of the fame tree has the fame taftc. Analogy, among geometricians, denotes a fonilitude of ratios. See Ratio. Analogy, in medicine, the refemblance obfervable between different difeafes, which indicates a fimilar treatment. Analogy, among grammarians, is the correfpondence which a word or phrafe bears to the genius and received forms of any language. Analogy of doClrine, among critics, is the explaining the paffage of an author, in a manner confiftent with the fyflem which he is known to have generally fob lowed. Analogy, in rhetoric, a figure of fpeech, otherwife called comparifon. See Comparison. ANALYSIS, in a general fenfe, is the refolution of fomething compounded, into its conflituent parts. Hence, Analysis, among logicians, is the refolving of knowledge into original principles, by tracing things backward to their caufes. Analysis, among mathematicians, the art of difeovering the truth or falfehood of a propofition, or its poffibility or impoflibility. This is done by fuppofing the propofition, fuch as it is, true ; and examining what follows from, thence, until we arrive at fome evident truth, or fome impoffibility, of which the firft propofition is a neceffary confequence; and from thence eftablifh the truth or impoffibility of that propofition. Analysis, in chemiftry, the reducing of an heterogeneous or mixt body, into its original principles or component parts. See Chemistry. Analysis, is alfo ufed to fignify the anatomical diffedion of an animal. See Anatomy.

(.2 ) ANA Analysis, among grammarians, is the explaining the etymology, conflrudion, and other properties of words. Anlysis ofpowers, is the operation of refolving them into their roots, otherwife called evolution. See Algebra, and Arithmetic. Analysis, is alfo ufed for a brief, but methodical illullration of the principles of a fcience; in which fenfe it is nearly fynonymous with what we otherwife call a fynopfis. Analysis, likewife denotes-a table of the principal heads of a continued difeourfe, difpofed in their natural order. ANALY ST, a perfon who makes ufe of the analytical method of refolving problems. ANALYTIC, or Analytical, in a general fenfe, denotes fomething belonging to the analyfis. See Analysis. It is more particularly ufed for the mathematical and logical analyfis, above explained. ANAMNESTICS, among phyficians, figns or fymptoms from which the prefent ftate of the body is difcovered. ANAMORPHOSIS, in perfpedive, and painting, a monflrous projedion, or reprefentation of an image, on a plane or curve furface, which, beheld at a proper difiance, lhall appear regular, and in proportion. See Perspective. ANANAS, fn botany, the trivial name of a fpecies of bromelia. SeeBROMELiA. ANANCITIS, in antiquity, a kind of figured ftone, otherwife called Jynocbitii, celebrated for its magical virtue of-'raifing the fhadows of the infernal gods. ANANTHOCYCLUS, in botany. See Colutea. ANAPEST, in ancient poetry, a foot confiding of two foort fyllables, and one long: Such is the word fcopiifos. It is juft the reverfe of the dadyl. See Dactyl. ANAPALSTIC verfes, thofe confifting wholly or chiefly of anapaefts. ANAPES, a town in Flanders, fituated upon the river Marque, fomething more than a league’s diftance from Lifle. ANAPHORA, in rhetoric, the repetitfon of the fame word or words in the beginning of a fentence, or verfe : Thus Virgil, Pan etiam Arcadia mecum fe judice certet. Pan etiam Arcadia dicat fe judice viclum. Anaphora, among phyficians, the throwing off purulent matter by the mouth. ANAPHRODISIA, fignifies impotence, or want of power to procreate. ANAPLASIS, fignifies the replacing or fetting a fractured bone. ANAPLEROSIS, among phyficians. See Plethora. ANAPLEROTICS, medicines that promote the growth or granulation of the flefh, in wounds, ulcers, &c. ANAPODOPHYLLUM, in botany. See Podophyllum. ANAPULA, a province of Venezuela in South Ame-