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dissect, v.|dɪˈsɛkt|
[f. L. dissect- ppl. stem of dissecāre, f. dis- 1 + secāre to cut.]
1. trans. To cut asunder, cut in pieces, divide by cutting. lit. and fig. (Now more or less associated with 2 and 3.)
1607Topsell Serpents (1653) 621 Young Chickens being dissected or cut in pieces when they are warm, ought to be laid to the stinged part. 1624Massinger Parl. Love iv. v, To dissect thee, Eat thy flesh off with burning corrosives..were justice. 1638Sir T. Herbert Trav. (ed. 2) 178 Hee that dissected Gordions knot. 1783W. F. Martyn Geog. Mag. II. 131 This eminence is dissected into six terraces. 1805–17R. Jameson Char. Min. 166 The manner of dissecting this prism. 1886F. B. Jevons in Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. VII. 292 The aggregationists before them undertook to dissect the Iliad into its constituent lays.
2. spec. To cut up (an animal body, a plant, etc.) for the purpose of displaying the position, structure, and relations of the various internal parts; to anatomize.
1611Florio, Dissettare, to desect or cut as an Anatomie. 1615Crooke Body of Man i. ix. (1631), They say, he [Galen] hath giuen vs onely the Anatomy of bruit Beasts, and not of Man, hauing neuer dissected a Mans body. 1671Grew Anat. Plants i. i. §3 (1682) 2 If we take a Bean and dissect it. 1724Swift Reasons agst. Exam. Drugs Wks. 1755 III. i. 127 The power given to physicians to dissect the bodies of malefactors. 1867Emerson May-day, etc. Wks. (Bohn) III. 422 Two doctors in the camp Dissected the slain deer.
absol.1678Butler Hud. iii. iii. 477 Anatomists dissect and mangle, To cut themselves out work to wrangle. 1879E. A. Davidson in Cassell's Techn. Educ. ii. 70 The teacher should obtain heads, hearts, &c. of sheep, oxen and other animals, and dissect in the presence of the boys.
b. to dissect out: to excise (an organ or a diseased part) so as not to remove any adjoining part with it.
1864–70T. Holmes Syst. Surg. II. 119 In dissecting out the cyst. 1894Lancet 3 Nov. 1030, I made an incision..from the mouth over the prominent cyst wall and dissected the tumour out..The wall of the cyst was so thin that when nearly dissected out it ruptured.
3. fig. and transf. To take to pieces, so as to lay bare every part; to examine minutely part by part, to analyze; to criticize in detail.
a1631Donne in Select. (1840) 114 That soul that is dissected and anatomized to God. 1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. i. §64 Persons of all conditions took great license in..dissecting all his infirmities. 1693Dryden Persius Sat. i, Yet old Lucilius never fear'd the times; But lash'd the city, and dissected crimes. 1850Kingsley Alt. Locke i, I never could dissect and map out my own being or my neighbour's as you analysts do. 1869Rogers Pref. to Adam Smith's W.N. I. 43 He dissected the pretensions of the great East India Company. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) IV. 413 No other thinker has ever dissected the human mind with equal patience and minuteness.
†4. To analyze (chemically). Obs.
1808J. Barlow Columb. iv. 456 O'er great, o'er small extends his physic laws, Empalms the empyrean or dissects a gaz.
5. Business. To analyze an invoice or account of goods bought or sold, picking out the various items, and allotting them to the special departments to which they severally belong.
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