ana-, an-, ano-

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.

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. 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 Anything done or existing out of date; hence, anything that was proper to a former age, but is, or, if it existed, would be, out of harmony with the present.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.

Extreme thirst.

A descriptive word for excessive thirst.

1. Fish that spend most of their lives feeding in the open ocean, but migrate to spawn in freshwater.
2. Fish; such as, salmon and shad that return from the sea to the rivers where they were born in order to breed.

The best-known anadromous fish are salmon, which hatch in small freshwater streams, go down to the sea and dwell there for several years, then return to the same streams where they were hatched, spawn, and then die shortly thereafter.

Referring to a machine, or system, that produces representations in relief, of coins, medals, etc.