Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, reviving after desiccation, as so-called resurrection-plants.
- Raised; consisting of or furnished with raised characters: as,anastatic plates.
- noun Agenus of plants, of the natural order Cruciferæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to a process or a style of printing from characters in relief on zinc plates.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to
anastasis .
Etymologies
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anastasis + -ic
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Examples
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The 'anastatic' process, described by Faraday in 1845, and partly due to Werner Siemens, was a method of reproducing printed matter by transferring the print from paper to plates of zinc.
Heroes of the Telegraph John Munro 1889
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'Another early subject of mine, the anastatic printing process, found favour with Faraday, "the great and the good," who made it the subject of a Friday evening lecture at the Royal Institution.
Heroes of the Telegraph John Munro 1889
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