or ANANISAFTA, a magical word frequently found inscribed on coins and other amulets, supposed to have a virtue of preserving the wearer from the plague.

ANAPÆST, in Ancient Poetry, a foot consisting of two short syllables and one long: such is the word scūptūs. It is just the reverse of the daëtyl.

ANAPÆSTIC VERSES, those consisting wholly or chiefly of anapæsts.