ana-, an-, ano-, am- +

up; upon; again; back

1. The advocacy of adult baptism on the grounds that only as adults can people responsibly accept and declare their faith.
2. Any of the churches of western Christendom that separated from the Roman Catholic Church during the Reformation resulting in a Protestant movement in the 16th century that believed in the primacy of the Bible, only baptized believers, not infants, and believed in complete separation of church and state.

A member of a movement of the Protestant Reformation who believed in adult baptism, freedom of religious beliefs, separation of church and state, the rejection of war, and other beliefs that were rather advanced for their time.

Anabaptists believed that infants were not punishable for sin because they had no awareness of good and evil and thus could not yet exercise free will, repent, and accept baptism.

Denying the validity of infant baptism, they accepted adult baptism, which was regarded as a second baptism by those outside the group who identified them as Anabaptists (from the Greek for "rebaptizers"). Confident of living at the end of time, early Anabaptists sought to restore the institutions and spirit of the primitive church.

To baptize again or to re-baptize.

A local wind blowing up a hill or mountain because of local surface heating.

Anabatic wind is caused by the difference in density between the warm ground air and the cooler air in the free atmosphere.

Perennial (constantly recurring or lasting for an indefinite time).

1. Restoration of vital processes after their apparent cessation.
2. A revival or resuscitation of life; returning to life.
3. The condition of an organism that has passed into a resting stage, that is cyclic or seasonal, but produced by a change in the environment; such as, the loss of moisture.

1. Apparently lifeless, but still capable of living.
2. Acting as a stimulant or tonic.
3. A revivifying remedy, a powerful stimulant; resuscitating or restorative.

1. Metabolic reactions in which molecules are linked together to form more complex compounds.

Starch, glycogen, fats, and proteins are all products of anabolic pathways.

2. The building up of the body's substance or the constructive phase of metabolism by which a cell takes from the blood the substance required for repair and growth, building it into a cytoplasm; thus, converting a nonliving material into the living cytoplasm of the cell.

Anabolism is the opposite of catabolism, the destructive phase of metabolism.

Any product of anabolism or constructive phase of metabolism or the physical and chemical processes by which food is converted by a living organism to provide energy and to produce and to maintain cells and tissues.

1. A collection or deposit of particles at a place; such as, of bacteria or metals that have localized out of the bloodstream in areas of an inflammation.
2. The attraction to and a deposition within an inflammatory lesion of microbes or metal particles.

Someone who has withdrawn from the world; such as, a religious recluse or a hermit.

1. An error in computing time, or fixing dates; the erroneous reference of an event, circumstance, or custom to a wrong date.
2. Anything done or existing out of date; hence, anything that was proper to a former age, but is, or, if it existed, would be, out of harmony with the present.
3. Something or someone that is not in its correct historical or chronological time; especially, a thing or person that belongs to an earlier time.

1. In geology, having a downward inclination opposite to that of a stratum.
2. A reference to valleys, rivers, and similar structures that are progressing in a direction opposite to the dip in the surrounding rock strata.

Extreme thirst or intense thirst which refers to a sensation, often located in the mouth and throat, associated with a craving for drink that is ordinarily interpreted as a desire for water.