analyze, analyse (analiz)

t.; pret. and pp. analyzed, analysed, ppr. analyzing, analysing. [Now usually spelled analyse in England, but formerly there, as still in the United States, spelled regularly analyze (as in Johnson's Dictionary), in the 17th century also analize, But do what we will, there remains in all deeply agreeable impre ions a charming something we cannot analyze . H. James, Jr. , Trans. Sketches, p. 244. The analyzing prism is fitted into the body [of the microscope] above the Wenham prism, in such a manner that, when its fitting is drawn out,... it is completely out of the way of the light-rays. W. B. Carpenter, Micros., § 68. Hence-2. To examine critically, so as to bring out the e ential elements or give the e ence of: as, to analyze a poem.-3. In math., to submit (a problem) to treatment by algebra, and especially by the calculus.