anoine

[ANOA.] Pertaining to the Anoa (q.v.). In Griffith's Cuvier the last subdivision of Antilope is called the Anoine group. (Griffith's Cuvier, vol. iv., p. 292.) + II. An anointed prophet. ( Lit. & fig .) [ANOINT, I. 1, (2), (c).] Anomalistic year: A year consisting of 365 days, 6 hrs., 13 min., 49-3 secs. It exceeds the sidereal year by 4 min., 39.7 secs., because owing to a slow motion which the longer axis of the earth's ellipse makes of 11'8 seconds yearly in advance, our planet is the number of minutes and seconds mentioned above in travelling from perihelion to perihelion. (Herschel: Astron., 10th ed., § 384.) "But let us wait; thus far He hath perform'd, Sent His Anointed."- Milton P. R., bk. ii. 228 ạn-om-al-is-tic-al-lý, adv. [Eng. anomalistical; -ly.] In an anomalous way; in an abnormal way; irregularly.