Meaning

To cut up or dissect (the body of a human being or an animal), specifically for the purpose of investigating its anatomy..

Definitions by Sense

1. To cut up or dissect (the body of a human being or an animal), specifically for the purpose of investigating its anatomy.
2. To cut up or dissect (a plant or one of its parts) to investigate its structure.
3. To scrutinize (something) down to the most minute detail.
4. To chemically analyse (a substance).
5. (intransitive) To cut up or dissect the body of a human being or an animal.

Example Sentences

VVho but a Foppe vvil labour to anatomize a Flye?

Then let them anotomize Regan, ſee vvhat breeds about her / Hart[,] is there any cauſe in nature that makes this hardnes, […]

[A]bout him lay the carkaſſes of many ſeuerall beaſts, nevvly by him cut vp and Anatomiſed, […]

VVell my dear I'll provide for thy going off hovvever: let me ſee! you'll only have occaſion for a Noſegay, a pair of VVhite Gloves, and a Coffin: look you, take you no care about the Surgeons, you ſhall not be Anatomiz'd— […]

He did not care the least about Fanny now: he wondered how he ever should have cared: and according to his custom made an autopsy of that dead passion, and anatomised his own defunct sensation for his poor little nurse.

Near-synonyms: atomize, analyze

I ſpeake but brotherly of him, but ſhould I anathomize him to thee, as hee is, I muſt bluſh, and vveepe, and thou muſt look pale and vvonder.

I vvould gladly haue him ſee his company anathomiz'd, that hee might take a meaſure of his ovvne iudgements, vvherein ſo curiouſly he had ſet this counterfeit.

Word Forms

• anatomizes
• anatomizing
• anatomized
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• anatomize
• anatomizest
• anatomizedst
• anatomizeth
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• anatomise

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Use anatomize when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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