单词 | anatomize |
释义 | anatomizev. 1. a. trans. To dissect or cut up; esp. To dissect a human body, or an animal, for the purpose of displaying the position, structure, and relations of the various parts; to make a dissection of. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > laboratory analysis > processes > [verb (transitive)] > dissection anatomize?1541 discarve?1541 dissect1611 dissecate1615 skeletonize1644 skeleton1888 ?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens ii. sig. Biijv, By experyence, in deuysynge and Anathomysynge the deade corpses. 1593 T. Nashe Strange Newes 5 Who but a Foppe wil labour to anatomize a Flye? 1596 C. Fitz-Geffrey Sir Francis Drake sig. G4, Anatomize me into atomies. 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy Democritus to Rdr. 5 The carkasses of many seuerall beasts, newly by him cut vp and Anatomised. 1696 Philos. Trans. 1695–7 (Royal Soc.) 19 270 When I was Anatomizing of Eeels. 1701 C. Cibber Love makes Man v. 55 Take you no care about the Surgeons, you shall not be Anatomiz'd. 1863 G. A. Sala Capt. Dangerous II. vii. 224 Surgeon's Hall, where malefactors were anatomised after execution. b. To dissect (plants). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > botany > explore or examine botanically [verb (transitive)] > dissect (plants) anatomize1686 1686 W. Harris tr. N. Lemery Course Chym. Introd. 21 Anatomize the Plant how you think fit, without using fire. 1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. Introd. 15 A botanist..prefers to examine the stem, or the leaf..and does not find it necessary to anatomise the seed. 2. absol. ΚΠ 1870 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. (1873) 308 When he should have been anatomizing. 1873 R. Browning Red Cotton Night-cap Country iv. 231 Cut, hack, slash, anatomize, Till peccant part be found. 3. a. fig. To lay open minutely; to analyse. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > close examination, scrutiny > scrutinize [verb (transitive)] > analyse anatomize1588 analyse1770 1588 F. Thynne Let. 15 Nov. in Animaduersions (1875) p. xcii, I will not Anotomyze euery perticular default of euerye manne. 1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. F, To anotamize wit. a1616 Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) iv. iii. 33, I would gladly haue him see his company anathomiz'd, that hee might take a measure of his owne iudgements. View more context for this quotation 1631 Foxe's Actes & Monuments (ed. 7) III. Contin. 8/2 Thus was the Masse anatomised, with the abhominations thereof. 1642 J. Howell Instr. Forreine Travell i. 5 All the Topographers that ever..anatomiz'd a Town or Countrey. 1673 R. Allestree Ladies Calling (1683) i. §4. 29 They anatomise every part of her dress, her meen, her dialect. a1733 R. North Lives of Norths II. 206 He found that tones and chords might be anatomized. 1777 E. Burke Let. to Sheriffs Bristol in Wks. III. 183 People, who have split and anatomised the doctrine of free government. 1859 T. J. Gullick & J. Timbs Painting 175 In knowing how to ‘anatomize light and shade in endless gradation.’ ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > chemical assay or analytical chemistry > analyse chemically [verb (transitive)] anatomize1617 analyse1666 1617 J. Woodall Surgions Mate 276 Paracelsus, who had truly anatomized that salt [sc. Copperas]. 1652 J. French York-shire Spaw iv. 40 If water were accurately anotamized. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1884; most recently modified version published online March 2011). < v.?1541 |
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