Ăn'a-stăt'ĭc, a.

a. [Gr. ἀναστατικός, from ἀνιστάναι, to raise up, from ἀνά, up, and ἱστάναι, to make to stand, στῆναι, to stand, στατικός, causing to stand.]

1. Furnished with raised characters;—applied to a certain kind of plates for printing.
2. Produced by means of such characters; as, anastatic printing, which is a method of transferring letter-press, engravings, or designs of any kind to a plate of zinc, and then subjecting the plate to the action of an acid which etches or eats away the metal in the parts not covered with the ink, leaving these parts in relief, so that they can readily be printed from.