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anatomize


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Anatomize  \A*nat"o*mize\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Anatomized};  p. 
  pr  &  vb  n.  {Anatomizing}.]  [Cf.  F.  anatomiser.] 
  1.  To  dissect;  to  cut  in  pieces,  as  an  animal  vegetable  body, 
  for  the  purpose  of  displaying  or  examining  the  structure 
  and  use  of  the  several  parts 
 
  2.  To  discriminate  minutely  or  carefully;  to  analyze. 
 
  If  we  anatomize  all  other  reasonings  of  this  nature, 
  we  shall  find  that  they  are  founded  on  the  relation 
  of  cause  and  effect.  --Hume. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  anatomize 
  v  :  dissect  in  order  to  analyze;  "anatomize  the  bodies  of  the 
  victims  of  this  strange  disease"  [syn:  {anatomise}] 




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