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of them under their leader Veneris, was defeated by GeneralMonk, and all the prisoners tried and executed. However,in 1680, we find the Anabaptists had established a place ofworship in London , having relinquished their wild ideas ofgeneral liberty, and they are now reputed an inoffensive andrespectable sect.

ANAGRAM , the formation of a new word, or sentence, bythe transposition of the letters of a name, was not unknownto the Greeks, who ascribed the invention of it to Lycophron ,about 280 13. C. This bagatelle was revived by Daurat, aFrench poet, in the Reign of Charles IX . The finest andhappiest of all Anagrams extant, is that on the question putby Pilate to our Saviour, Quid cst veritas ? which, anagram-matically, makes Est ver qui adest.

ANATt )MY. The Egyptians, at a very early period, musthave acquired some knowledge of Anatomy , not only fromthe circumstance of their embalming the bodies of their dead,but from the custom of carrying about at their feasts, a ske-leton, lest their guests, in the midst of their merriment, shouldforget the frail tenure of life and its enjoyments. Anatomy wasalso studied by the ancient Greeks, and is frequently alludedto in Homer: it is even asserted, that they used to dissect thebodies of criminals alive, and that Ilerophilus, a Greek phy-sician of Chalcedon, and attached to the medical school esta-blished at Alexandria about 200 years 13. C., was guilty ofthis barbarity. The first dissection, however, on record, isone in which Democritus of Abdera , was engaged, in orderto ascertain the sources and course of the bile. Galen, whoflourished about 150 after the birth of Christ, and re-ceived his education at Alexandria, is the only one among theRomans whose writings on the subject are worthy of notice.Soon afterwards the science of Anatomy gradually diminished,and might be considered as extinguished in Europe , for the