ἀνάλῠ-σις, εως, ἡ,
(ἀναλύω) loosing, releasing, κακῶν from evils, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 142 (Lyric poetry); ὅρκων 4th-3rd c.BC: Timaeus Historicus 23. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 dissolving, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Mundo” 394b17, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.915c (_plural_)] Refs 4th c.BC+]; σώματος, of death, [[ 2nd c.AD: Secundus Gnomologus “Sententiae - FPG” 19. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__3 resolution of a problem by the analysis of its conditions, opposed to σύνθεσις, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1112b23; especially in in Mathematics texts, 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “Academicorum Index” 17, 3rd c.AD(?): Pappus Mathematicus 634.11, 5th c.AD: Proclus Philosophus “in primum Euclidis librum commentarius” p.43 F. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__4 in the Logic of [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus ] Refs 4th c.BC+], reduction of the imperfect figures into the perfect one, [[ “APr.” 51a18, +others, 3rd c.BC: Chrysippus Stoicus 2.7. ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__5 solution of a problem, etc., [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Romulus” 12. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__II (from passive) retrogression, [[ [prev. author] 2.76d] Refs]; retirement, departure, [[ 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 19.4.1] Refs 1st c.AD+]; death [[compare (ἀναλύω 111), NT.2Tim.4.6.] NT]