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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

anastate \an"a*state\ ([a^]n"[.a]*st[asl]t), n. [Gr. 'ana` up + ista`nai to make to stand.] (Physiol.) One of a series of substances formed, in secreting cells, by constructive or anabolic processes, in the production of protoplasm; -- opposed to katastate. --Foster. [1913 Webster]