a. and sb. [f. AN- pref. 10 + ELECTRIC.]
A. adj. † a. Non-electric (obs.). b. Parting rapidly with any electricity developed in it.
1830. Brewster’s Cycl., II. 69/2. Anelectric, a word employed by the French to denote those bodies that are non-conductors of Electricity.
1853. Mayne, Exp. Lex., Anelectric, having no electric properties.
B. sb. † a. A non-electric body; a substance that does not become electric when rubbed (obs.). † b. A body, such as a metal, which being a good conductor parts rapidly with electricity.
1863. Atkinson, Ganot’s Physics (ed. 3), 585. Bodies were formerly divided into … those which become electrical by friction, and anelectrics, or those which do not possess this property.
