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anatomist, a. and n.|əˈnætəmɪst|
[a. Fr. anatomiste (16th c.), prob. ad. med.L. *anatomista, f. anatomīzā-re: see anatomize and -ist.]
†A. adj. Anatomic. Obs. rare.
1569J. Sandford Agrippa's Van. Artes 153 The Anotomist Arte or cuttinge of menne by Phisitions.
B. n. One who practises, or is skilled in, the art of dissecting bodies, esp. (when no qualifying word is prefixed) the human body.
1594T. B. tr. La Primaudaye's Fr. Acad. II. 394 These skinnes which are three in number as some Anatomistes say. 1594Carew Huarte's Exam. Wits xii. 176 Many Phisitions, learned in the Greke and Latine tongue, and great Anotomists. 1610Healey St. Aug., City of God xxii. xxiv. (1620) 848 Some butcherly Surgeons, (Anatomists, they call them) haue often cut vp dead men. 1658Cokaine Poems (1669) 111 The skilfullest Anatomist that yet Vpon an humane body e're did sit. 1777Hume Ess. & Treat. II. 8 The anatomist presents to the eye the most hideous and disagreeable objects. 1863Kinglake Crimea (1876) I. xiv. 219 The relations between an anatomist and a corpse.
b. (The adjectives vegetable, comparative, morbid, etc. prefixed to anatomist, define the special department of anatomy in which he is skilled.)
1830Lyell Princ. Geol. 3 A comparative anatomist may derive some accession of knowledge from the bare inspection of the remains of an extinct quadruped. 1845Todd & Bowman Phys. Anat. I. 316 The researches of the morbid anatomist.
2. fig. A dissecter of anything, an analyzer.
1587Golding De Mornay Pref. 9 Interpreters, and Anatomists or Decipherers of nature. 1828Macaulay Hallam, Ess. (1851) I. 52 The latter is an anatomist; his task is to dissect the subject..and to lay bare before us all the springs of motion and all the causes of decay. 1848H. Rogers Ess. I. vi. 327 So keen an anatomist of human nature. |