[f. ἀνά up + μορφή form + -ISM.]
1. Distorted projection or perspective.
1836. Edin. Rev., LXIII. 105. Emblazoning on a separate tablet … the anamorphisms in which it [the form of his brother] had been drawn.
2. Progression from a lower to a higher type.
1852. Huxley, in Phil. Trans., CXLIII. i. 63. If, however, all Cephalous Mollusks … be only modifications by excess or defect of the parts of a definite archetype, then, I think, it follows as a necessary consequence, that no anamorphism takes place in this group.
