Both Uses of
analyze
in
The Scarlet Letter
- Would it be beyond a philosopher's research, think ye, gentlemen, to analyse that child's nature, and, from it make a mould, to give a shrewd guess at the father?†
p. 107.8 *analyse = examine in detail to better understandunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. American's spell it analyze.
- This unhappy person had effected such a transformation by devoting himself for seven years to the constant analysis of a heart full of torture, and deriving his enjoyment thence, and adding fuel to those fiery tortures which he analysed and gloated over.†
p. 157.1analysed = examined in detail to better understandunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. American's spell it analyzed.
Definitions:
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(1)
(analyze) to examine and consider something in detail to better understand it
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Less commonly, analyze may specifically mean to determine chemical components or to psychoanalyze. Very rarely, you may see the British spell analyzes as analyses--which Americans use as the plural spelling for analysis.