is that branch of anatomy which considers the secondary objects, or the bodies of other animals; serving for the more accurate distinctions of several parts, and supplying the defect of human subjects.

It is otherwise called the anatomy of beasts, and sometimes zootomy; and stands in contradistinction to human anatomy, or that branch of the art which considers the human body the primary object of anatomy. See Anatomy.

Comparative Degree, among grammarians, that between the positive and superlative degrees, expressive of any particular quality above or below the level of another.