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pertaining to or proceeding by -n-lysis (opposed to ).
skilled in or habitually using -n-lysis.
(of a language) characterized by a relatively frequent use of function words, auxiliary verbs, and changes in word order to express syntactic relations, rather than of inflected forms.
compare (def 3), (def 1).
logic. (of a proposition) necessarily true because its denial involves a contradiction, as “all husbands are married.”.
mathematics.

(of a function of a complex variable) having a first derivative at all points of a given domain; holomorphic; regular.
(of a curve) having parametric equations that represent -n-lytic functions.
(of a proof) using .

contemporary examples

she is the author of creating bodies: eating disorders as self-destructive survival from the -n-lytic press.
the post-pregnancy weight-loss obsession katie gentile january 22, 2010

historical examples

it greatly tends to conceal from the reader the central position which kant has -ssigned to time in the -n-lytic.
a commentary to kant’s ‘critique of pure reason’ norman kemp smith

in no part of the critique is this so obvious as in the -n-lytic of concepts.
a commentary to kant’s ‘critique of pure reason’ norman kemp smith

-n-lytic and synthetic propositions at once throw light upon the notion of a category.
the posthumous works of thomas de quincey, vol. 1 (2 vols) thomas de quincey

to do this (he says) belongs to the province of -n-lytic; while in the present treatise he is dealing merely with dialectic.
aristotle george grote

do not look for -n-lytic date-words in the following cases until you have first memorised my correlations or your own.
-ssimilative memory marcus dwight larrowe (aka prof. a. loisette)

the argument of the dialectic is no longer emphasised at the expense of the -n-lytic.
a commentary to kant’s ‘critique of pure reason’ norman kemp smith

it might even be argued that every proposition is -n-lytic to the man who utters it and synthetic to the man who receives it.
logic, inductive and deductive william minto

in the -n-lytic it is ascribed to the co-operation of sensibility and understanding.
a commentary to kant’s ‘critique of pure reason’ norman kemp smith

the logical aspect of the problem first receives anything like adequate recognition in the -n-lytic.
a commentary to kant’s ‘critique of pure reason’ norman kemp smith

adjective
relating to -n-lysis
capable of or given to -n-lysing: an -n-lytic mind
(linguistics) also isolating. denoting languages, such as chinese, whose morphology is characterized by -n-lysis compare synthetic (sense 3), agglutinative (sense 2), polysynthetic
(logic, of a proposition)

true by virtue of the meanings of the words alone without reference to the facts, as all spinsters are unmarried
true or false by virtue of meaning alone; so all spinsters are married is -n-lytically false compare synthetic (sense 4), a priori

(maths) also regular, holomorphic. (of a function of a complex variable) having a derivative at each point of its domain
adj.

c.1600, from medieval latin -n-lyticus, from greek -n-lytikos “-n-lytical,” from -n-lytos “dissolved” (see -n-lysis).

-n-lytic an·a·lyt·ic (ān’ə-lĭt’ĭk) or an·a·lyt·i·cal (-ĭ-kəl)
adj.

of or relating to -n-lysis or -n-lytics.

expert in or using -n-lysis, especially one who thinks in a logical manner.

psycho-n-lytic.