Anankastic personality
a personality syndrome characterized by obsessional or compulsive traits.
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a small natural satellite of the planet jupiter. historical examples still it is with some such definite decision that he enters the kingdom of ananke, the goddess of necessity. the created legend feodor sologub this divinity is sometimes identified with tyche, sometimes with ananke. myths and legends of ancient greece and rome e.m. berens his […]
- Ananthous
having no flowers. adjective (of higher plants) having no flowers
- Anapest
a foot of three syllables, two short followed by one long in quant-tative meter, and two unstressed followed by one stressed in accentual meter, as in for the nonce. historical examples it will be noted that the dactyl is very closely related in expression to the trochee, and the anapest to the iambic. browning and […]
- Anapaest
a foot of three syllables, two short followed by one long in quant-tative meter, and two unstressed followed by one stressed in accentual meter, as in for the nonce. historical examples “home,” by margaret mahon, is a poem in that rather popular modern measure which seems to waver betwixt the iambus and anapaest. writings in […]
- Anapestic
a foot of three syllables, two short followed by one long in quant-tative meter, and two unstressed followed by one stressed in accentual meter, as in for the nonce. historical examples in like manner we have anapestic lines of all lengths from monometer to hexameter. elementary guide to literary criticism f. v. n. painter technically […]