ecclesiastical history, the name by which the pure Arians were called in the fourth century, in contradistinction to the Semi-Arians. The word is formed from the Greek, ἀνομοιος, different, dissimilar: For the pure Arians asserted, that the Son was of a nature different from, and in nothing like, that of the Father: whereas the Semi-Arians acknowledged a likeness of nature in the Son; at the same time that they denied, with the pure Arians, the consubstantiality of the Word. The Semi-Arians condemned the Anomoeans in the council of Seleucia; and the Anomoeans in their turn condemned the Semi-Arians in the councils of Constantinople and Antioch, erasing the word ὁμοιος, like, out of the Formula of Rimini and that of Constantinople.

Anomorhomboidia, in Natural History, the name of a genus of lizards; the word is derived from the Greek ἀνωμαλος, irregular, and ῥόμβος, a rhomboidal figure. The bodies of this genus are pellucid crystalline lizards of no determinate or regular external form, but always breaking into regularly rhomboidal masses; easily fissile, and composed of plates running both horizontally and perpendicularly through the masses, but cleaving more readily and evenly in a horizontal, than in a perpendicular direction; the plates being ever composed of irregular arrangements of rhomboideal concretions. Of this genus there are five known species. 1. A white, bright, and flattery one; found in great quantities in the lead mines of Derbyshire, Yorkshire, and Wales. 2. A milk-white, opaque, and flattery one, found in some parts of France, and very plentifully in Germany, and sometimes in Wales and Scotland, and in the hills of Yorkshire. 3. A hard, dull, and snow-white one, found in some of the mines in Derbyshire, and in many of our northern counties. 4. A hard, gray, and pellucid one, found in the lead mines of Yorkshire, and very common in Germany. And, 5. A pellucid and colourless one; this is found in the lead mines of Derbyshire and Yorkshire. All these in some degree have the double refraction of the Iceland crystal. See Iceland Crystal.

Anonis. See Ononis, Botany Index.

Anonymous, something that is nameless, or of which the name is concealed. It is a term usually applied to books which do not express the author's name, or to authors whose names are unknown.