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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of vivisect.

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Examples

  • He's got a post on the Huffington Post that fillets, dissects and vivisects the Newsweek list of "50 Most Influential Rabbis."

    RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2010

  • Orlando Patterson on The Race Card by Richard Thompson Ford: With a daring disregard for ideological propriety, Ford vivisects every sacred cow in 'post-racist' America.

    An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs. 2008

  • He's got a post on the Huffington Post that fillets, dissects and vivisects the Newsweek list of "50 Most Influential Rabbis."

    RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2010

  • Kevin Allman properly vivisects Derbyshire's earlier piece here.

    Archive 2007-02-01 2007

  • Over the next nine issues–Complete Zeppelin Stories, like many other pulps, was bi-monthly–Zeppelin fought an increasingly colorful set of foes: the Prussian aviator Pontius Pilot; the Black Death, the “living disease;” Wu Fang, the Helium Mandarin; Dr. Okayuma, who vivisects spies in his zeppelin laboratory; Amenhotep, the simian Pharaoh of the Congo; and Baron Nosferatu, the Flying Vampire . . .

    Great Flaming Gas Bags! Walter Jon Williams 2009

  • Over the next nine issues–Complete Zeppelin Stories, like many other pulps, was bi-monthly–Zeppelin fought an increasingly colorful set of foes: the Prussian aviator Pontius Pilot; the Black Death, the “living disease;” Wu Fang, the Helium Mandarin; Dr. Okayuma, who vivisects spies in his zeppelin laboratory; Amenhotep, the simian Pharaoh of the Congo; and Baron Nosferatu, the Flying Vampire . . .

    Archive 2009-09-01 Walter Jon Williams 2009

  • Even Dr. Sturgeon, pioneering bravely, is unable to get beyond a sentimental and trivial view of the thing he vivisects, and so his book is no more than a compendium of mush.

    Damn! A Book of Calumny 1918

  • His undoubted comradeship, his plain kindliness toward the soul he vivisects, is not the fruit of moral certainty, but of moral agnosticism.

    A Book of Prefaces 1918

  • It is not in his capacity of healer and man of science that the doctor vivisects or defends vivisection, but in his entirely vulgar lay capacity.

    The Doctor's Dilemma: Preface on Doctors George Bernard Shaw 1903

  • "I am afraid that man vivisects," he said, in his gravest tone.

    The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson) Stuart Dodgson Collingwood 1903

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