vivisectv.
/ˈvɪvᵻsɛkt/, /ˌvɪvᵻˈsɛkt/, U.S. /ˈvɪvəˌsɛk(t)/ 1. in extended use.1892 W. H. Hudson Naturalist in La Plata 180 These insects..house them in cells where the grubs can vivisect them at leisure.1893 F. C. Selous Trav. S.-E. Afr. 413 The piteous cries..of a donkey being vivisected by hyænas.
a. transitive. To dissect (an animal) while living; to perform vivisection upon.
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vivisect1864
curarize1892
1864 Daily Tel. 1 Aug. Much as they vivisect live animals at Alfort.
1876 J. Ruskin Fors Clavigera VI. lxx. 320 Modern naturalists, not being able to vivisect the Psyche, have..resolved that animals are to be classed by their bones.
1890 G. A. Smith Bk. Isaiah II. xii. 202 We do not vivisect our murderers nor kill them off by gladiatorial combats.
b. figurative. To investigate as if by vivisection; to examine or criticize minutely or mercilessly.
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the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > close examination, scrutiny > scrutinize [verb (transitive)]
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1876 R. Broughton Joan i. xx On the contrary, I live in hopes of seeing a successor or two [i.e. suitors] vivisected.
1880 Ruskin in 19th Cent. June 950 The modern novelist..cannot easily, in a city population, find a healthy mind to vivisect.
2. intransitive. To practise vivisection.
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vivisect1883
1883 S. Coleridge Vivisection 13 Surely a man must be at his wits' end before he could gravely put forward such an argument..in defence of a claim to vivisect by wholesale.
Derivatives
vivisected adj.
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vivisected1859
vivisectional1866
vivisectible1875
1859 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. V. 317/2 The artificial vomiting of vivisected animals.
1880 G. Meredith Tragic Comedians I. v. 93 The vivisected youth received the caress which quickened him to wholeness at a touch.
vivisecting n. and adj.
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the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > close examination, scrutiny > [adjective]
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scrutatory1893
the world > life > biology > laboratory analysis > processes > [noun] > dissection > vivisection
quick dissection1578
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vivisection1707
vivisecting1876
zoophile1885
sentisection1889
the world > life > biology > laboratory analysis > processes > [adjective] > dissection > vivisection > performing
vivisecting1876
vivisectional1881
1876 J. J. G. Wilkinson On Human Sci. 21 The vivisecting scalpel is all human cruelty.
1876 J. J. G. Wilkinson On Human Sci. 67 Facts of life..which must for ever escape the vivisecting mind.
1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Miner's Right I. xi. 270 The Doctor..looks at Cyrus with a vivisecting eye.
1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Miner's Right I. xii. 299 He did not choose to adopt the vivisecting process permitted to counsel in the higher courts.
1897 Our Dumb Animals (Boston) Nov. 70/2 The angel conducted him from one laboratory to another, from one vivisecting table to another.
vivisecˈtee n. that which is vivisected.
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1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 3 June 5/2 Whether any attempt at the absolute prohibition of vivisection would not react to the disadvantage of the unhappy ‘vivisectees’.
viviˈsectible adj. capable of being, liable to be, vivisected.
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the world > life > biology > laboratory analysis > processes > [adjective] > dissection > vivisection
vivisected1859
vivisectional1866
vivisectible1875
1875 Hoggan Let. in Morning Post 2 Feb. I am inclined to look upon anæsthetics as the greatest curse to vivisectible animals.
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