Obs.; also 8 -ise. [a. Fr. analyse (not in Cotgr., 1611; cf. It. analisi, Florio, 1598), f. med.L. analysis.] = ANALYSIS.
a. 1638. Mede, Wks., I. ii. 4. The words … are few, and therefore shall need no other Analyse than what their very number presents unto us.
1642. Rogers, Naaman, 293. The Analyse I gave of the contents of this Verse.
1664. H. More, Myst. Iniq., 276. Without any further Analyse I shall guide my exposition by the order of the verses.
c. 1730. Bolingbroke, Fragm. (1777), lii. To begin this analise.
