Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who disscets or anatomizes; a dissecter; an anatomist; an analyst.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A dissector.
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- noun One who carries out
dissection .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The Elizabethan anatomizer of abuses Phillip Stubbes, too, explicitly associated brothels with alehouses -- or, as he called them, "the slaughter howses, the shambles, the blockhowses of the Devill, wherein he butchereth Christen mens soules, infinit waies, God knoweth."
Wrong Side of the River: London's disreputable South Bank in the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Jessica A. Browner Jessica A. Browner 1994
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When the anatomizer and the bear have been thrown together casually, it has generally been a struggle between the two organisms to see which would make a study of the structure of the other.
Remarks Bill Nye 1873
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There were the Greek poets, whom he would have more intimately cherished, (he had been lately absorbed in the sublimity of the 'Prometheus Vinctus;') there was the great master and anatomizer of the human heart, who knew how to detail the springs of action common to all ages, the paragon of that deep learning which is not derived from books, but gleaned by his genius from all nature with a rare intuition, and with an incomprehensible power of research.
The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 Various
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"Then I remembered the time several months ago when I had one of my periodic sore throats, and you urged me to try a spray some Los Angeles chemist was experimenting with, and gave me anatomizer full of it.
The Unicorn Trade Anderson, Poul and Karen 1984
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