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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
anatomise .
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Examples
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Another penal order was for the body to be "anatomised" after execution, as in the case of a man named
Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King Alfred Kingston
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Having anatomised the diseased political corpus that has begun to infect the NHS with a commercial ethos that will increase costs, cut services and reduce quality, Leys and Stewart try to look to the future.
The Plot Against the NHS by Colin Leys and Stewart Player – review 2011
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It was a fascinating work from Chabrol: the man who anatomised the middle-class French body politic with a sadistic twist of the scalpel.
Claude Chabrol anatomised the French middle class with a twist of the scalpel 2010
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Misfortune has not dulled her sharp way with words, nor suppressed her flashes of grandeur: the doctors who ask her advice about their own writing, the hypnotist who demanded her endorsement for a self-help book, the lover for whom she left her second husband, the relation who gave her a 40th birthday present of 40 addled eggs, may writhe to find themselves anatomised here.
Book Review Roundup 2010
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Well, Aristotle (concurring with his mentor, Plato, for once, to verify or falsify the old saw about the agreement of great minds) anatomised the soul into a rational and an irrational half.
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It provides the ideological super-structure upon which the paradoxical image of African motion picture is anatomised and refocused.
Tempers Flare At the 74th Art Stampede Winner of the Prince Claus Award 2006 2008
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It provides the ideological super-structure upon which the paradoxical image of African motion picture is anatomised and refocused.
Archive 2008-03-01 Winner of the Prince Claus Award 2006 2008
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‘I had been anatomised, but had not yet had my skeleton put together and re-hung on an iron hook, when it began to be whispered that the Bride’s Chamber was haunted.
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But the opportunity of examining the skeleton of the very animal Tyson anatomised having most unexpectedly presented itself to me, I am able to bear independent testimony to its being a veritable ‘Troglodytes niger’18, though still very young.
Essays 2007
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Brain distempered, how cause of melancholy; his parts anatomised
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