(ἀναγνώστης), in Antiquity, a kind of literary servant, retained in the families of persons of distinction, and whose chief business was to read to them during meals, or at any other time. Cornelius Nepos relates of Atticus, that he had always an anagnostes at his meals.

ANAGOGÉ (ἀναγογή), among Ecclesiastical Writers, the elevation of the mind to things celestial and eternal. It is particularly used where words, in their natural or primary meanings, denote something sensible, but have a further view to something spiritual or invisible.

In a more particular sense, it denotes the application of the types and allegories of the Old Testament to subjects of the New; thus called, because the veil being here drawn, what before was hidden is exposed to open sight.