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anatomize, v.|əˈnætəmaɪz|
Also 6–7 anathom-, anotom-.
[ad. med. or early mod.L. anatomīzā-re (or its Fr. ad. anatomiser, 16th c. in Litt.), f. anatomia, as if on a Gr. *ἀνατοµίζ-ειν: see anatomy and -ize.]
1. trans. To dissect or cut up; esp. To dissect a human body, or an animal, for the purpose of displaying the position, structure, and relations of the various parts; to make a dissection of.
1541R. Copland Guydon's Quest. Cyrurg., By experyence in deuysynge and Anathomysynge the deade corpses. 1593Nashe 4 Lett. Confut. 5 Who but a Foppe wil labour to anatomize a Flye? 1596C. Fitzgeffrey Drake (1881) 99 Anatomize me into atomies. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. Democr. 5 The carkasses of many seuerall beasts, newly by him cut vp and Anatomised. 1696Phil. Trans. XIX. 270 When I was Anatomizing of Eeels. 1716Cibber Love makes a Man v. iii. 81 Take you no Care about the Surgeons, you shall not be anatomiz'd. 1863Sala Capt. Dang. II. vii. 224 Surgeon's Hall, where malefactors were anatomised after execution.
b. To dissect (plants).
1686W. Harris Lemery's Chem. Introd. 21 Anatomize the Plant how you think fit, without using fire. 1830Lindley Nat. Syst. Bot. Introd. 15 A botanist..prefers to examine the stem, or the leaf..and does not find it necessary to anatomise the seed.
2. absol.
1870Lowell Among my Bks. (1873) 308 When he should have been anatomizing. 1873Browning Red Cotton Night-Cap Country 231 Cut, hack, slash, anatomize, Till peccant part be found.
3. fig. To lay open minutely; to analyse.
1553–87Foxe A. & M. III. 879 Thus was the Mass anatomized, with the abominations thereof. 1588Thynne Let. in Animadv. Pref. 92, I will not anotomyze every perticular default of everye manne. 1589Greene Menaph. (Arb.) 51 To anatomize wit. 1601Shakes. All's Well iv. iii. 37, I would gladly haue him see his company anathomiz'd, that hee might take a measure of his owne iudgements. 1642Howell For. Trav. 12 All the Topographers that ever anatomiz'd a Toun or Countrey. 1673Lady's Call. i. §4 ⁋10 (1683) 29 They anatomise every part of her dress, her meen, her dialect. a1733North Lives of Norths II. 206 He found that tones and chords might be anatomized. 1777Burke Let. Sheriffs Brist. Wks. III. 183 People, who have split and anatomised the doctrine of free government. 1859in Gullick & Timbs Paint. 175 In knowing how to ‘anatomize light and shade in endless gradation.’
†b. To analyze chemically. Obs.
1612Woodall Surg. Mate Wks. 1653. 210 Paracelsus, who had truly anatomized that salt [Copperas]. 1652French Yorksh. Spa iv. 40 If water were accurately anotamized. |