Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements)

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anankē (Gr.), necessity.

anathema sit, let him be accursed (1 Cor. xvi. 22).

a natura rei (L.), from the nature of the case.

anax (Gr.), a prince.

'anch' io son pittore' (It.), 'I, too, am a painter' [said by Correggio with pride on looking at Raphael's picture of St Cecilia].

ancien régime (Fr.), the old order of things [esp. before the French Revolution];—ancienne noblesse, the nobility of the foregoing.

ancile, pl. ancilia (L.), the shield which fell from heaven in the reign of Numa Pompilius, on the safety of which the prosperity of Rome depended.

angekok, an Eskimo conjurer.

Anglicè (L.), in English.

anguis in herba (L.), snake in the grass.