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These two words recently I read in an article about paleolithic events. The meaning (contrast) I can't quite grasp. Can someone for me sort it out?
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I ran your almost-name  through OneLook; anastrophic doesn't seem to exist. So I tried anastrophe and had better luck: all but one had inversion/transposition of words as the def. One had simply inversion, which, without context, I can't make fit into a paleolithic scenario. However--I was given a few alternatives, none of which were particularly relevant, but I'm wondering if your writer might have meant this:
anatrophic (ana·troph·ic) (an˛[schwa]-trof˘ik) 1. correcting or preventing atrophy. 2. a remedy that prevents waste of the tissues. (Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary)
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I googled around and found a reference online saying that anastrophic was a local catstrophic [event]. Mentioned another term that I've seen before, "punctuated equilibrium", for how things (genetic) remain in a steady state for a long time, but then have short periods of almost catstrophic change. (I've seen it applied to language change.) http://origins.swau.edu/papers/global/chadwick/default.htmlAnother page (a Velikowsky newsletter (!)) attributed the term anastrophic to Forese Carlo Wezel who seems to be an Italian geologist.
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http://www.grazian-archive.com/quantavolution/QuantaHTML/vol_02/cosmicheretics_3_09.htm
refers to a mid-70s geologist contributing "the essential concept of anastrophism, the positive side of catastrophism, attributing the birth as well as the death of species to radiation disasters."
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Anna, your comment in the other thread sent me back here. I ran 'ana-' through Onelook, and the first def. in Wordsmyth could make sense in geology:
Syllables: an-a--
Part of Speech prefix
Definition 1. up or upward.
Example anabatic.
Definition 2. back or backward.
Example anachronism ; anapest.
Definition 3. again.
Example anabiosis.
Definition 4. similar to.
Example analogous.
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So where does anabaptist fit into that?
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That all depends on whether you are an anabaptist or not.
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Wasn't she Johnabaptist's unheralded sister?
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where does anabaptist fit into that?
Doesn't anabaptist just mean that you're not a baptist?
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Doesn't anabaptist just mean that you're not a baptist?Nope, means re-baptized. They don't believe in infant baptism. http://www.bartleby.com/61/37/A0273700.htmlHe says Amish, she says Hutterite, and thou sayest Mennonite, but they're all Anabaptists to me.
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Nope, means re-baptized.
That's some catch.
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Getting back to the first answer...
Part of Speech prefix
Definition 1. up or upward.
Example anabatic.
Definition 2. back or backward.
Example anachronism ; anapest.
Definition 3. again.
Example anabiosis.
Definition 4. similar to.
Example analogous.
Metabolism can be separated into anabolism and catabolism, in which catabolism means the tearing-down or destructive body processes and anabolism is the building-up or synthesizing ones. Closest perhaps to Definition One but not quite the same thing.
Most steroids - prednisone, dexamethasone, etc. - have the tendency to cause tissue breakdown, but there is a separate category used to promote growth (and abused to build up muscles) called - you guessed it - "anabolic steroids."
Think of a cat clawing at the sofa and ripping it apart to remember which one is which, ana- or cata-.
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Love it, wofa! Thanks. 
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For me, anastrophe was never anything more than a rhetorical device.This writer would agree with you, AnnaS, at least insofar as metaphor can be considered a "rhetorical device": "Metaphorically, the flow of life events can be seen to be like a stream where the various layers of liquids of different viscosity, temperature, colours, etc. appear as a single mass, but flow relatively separated. Periodically, the parallel trajectories are seriously disrupted either by willful human intervention or through the unpredictable emergence of disturbing elements or forces. Such interruption and resultant disturbance are to be expected as social manifestations of the divergence syndrome. When disturbances occur the steady state of linear laminar flow becomes punctuated by vortices of social turbulence. Such turbulence may be thought of as anastrophe, a whirlpool in the stream, the force of a vortex which pulls away and randomly mixes the otherwise smoothly flowing strands of social ides and events. Anastrophic vortices are the places from which major social change spring, taking off in new directions with unpredictable power and consequences. Individuals who seek to trigger or evoke powerful social changes, who create anastrophe in the flow of social events, by the introduction of disruptive ideas and actions, take great risks. They may not understand, control or predict the fractal divergences they unleash, and may become victims of the undiscriminating forces they create. Some may lose their head on the guillotine as did Robespiere, attract only 0.5 % of the primary vote for President as did Gorbachev in the recent Russian elections, be nailed to a cross as was Jesus, or gain enmity of the majority of people as often happen with innovative thinkers and leaders. Metaphorically, they drown in the anastrophic whirlpool they create or suffocate under avalanches of criticality they trigger. It is this that we have termed the Gorbachev Phenomenon. We have named this phenomenon after Gorbachev because he, more than any other person in recent history, personifies the effect described. Arguably, he almost single-handedly brought about changes that will amplify into changes in world history. For his interventions, he firstly earned the Nobel Prize followed by the unforgiving enmity of contemporary Russian society." For complete "Discussion", go to: http://journal-ci.csse.monash.edu.au/ci/vol03/dimitro/dimitro.html
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