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Anatomize v. t. (past & past part. anatomized; pres. part. anatomizing)

To dissect; to cut in pieces, as an animal vegetable body, for the purpose of displaying or examining the structure and use of the several parts.

To discriminate minutely or carefully; to analyze. "If we anatomize all other reasonings of this nature, we shall find that they are founded on the relation of cause and effect."

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... thus to trouble you. What here I say, some men do know so well, They can with tears and joy the story tell. The town of Mansoul is well known to many, Nor are her troubles doubted of by any That are acquainted with those Histories That Mansoul and her wars anatomize. Then lend thine ear to what I do relate, Touching the town of Mansoul and her state: How she was lost, took captive, made a slave: And how against him set, that should her save; Yea, how by hostile ways she did oppose Her Lord, and with ...

— The Holy War • John Bunyan

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... unease you too. The idiot! the patch! the slave! the booby! The property fit only to be beaten For your morning exercise? your football, or Th'unprofitable lump of flesh, your drudge, Can now anatomize you, and lay open All your black plots; level with the earth Your hill of pride, and shake, Nay pulverize, the walls ...

— The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810 • Various

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