Anagrams of: CATHARSIS

• (psychoanalysis) purging of emotional tensions

• purging the body by the use of a cathartic to stimulate evacuation of the bowels

• a person who archaizes

• an expert or collector of antiquities

• a person who archaizes

• an expert or collector of antiquities

• An ancient Greek stringed instrument, which could be considered a forerunner of the guitar.

• An ancient Greek stringed instrument, which could be considered a forerunner of the guitar.

• a complex carbohydrate found chiefly in seeds, fruits, tubers, roots and stem pith of plants, notably in corn, potatoes, wheat, and rice; an important foodstuff and used otherwise especially in adhesives and as fillers and stiffeners for paper and textiles

• a commercial preparation of starch that is used to stiffen textile fabrics in laundering

• stiffen with starch

• green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts

• any metamorphic rock that can be split into thin layers

• axis of a compound leaf or compound inflorescence

• the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord

• a seat for one person, with a support for the back

• the position of professor

• the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization

• an instrument of execution by electrocution; resembles an ordinary seat for one person

• a particular seat in an orchestra

• act or preside as chair, as of an academic department in a university

• preside over