anatomiser

Definitions

Étudier du point de vue anatomique.

Equivalents

Examples

“He adds, " It is well known that the anatomisers of plants and animals, in order⟳ to investigate⟳ their structure⟳, and to obtain⟳ an insight into the grounds why and to what end⟳ such parts, why such a situation and connexion of the parts, and exactly such an internal form⟳, come⟳ before them, assume⟳, as indispensably necessary, this maxim, that in such a creature nothing is in vain, and proceed upon it in the same way in which in general natural philosophy we proceed upon the principle that nothing happens by chance..."”

“That means celebrity in an evil sense⟳, you anatomisers of words would, I suppose⟳, tell⟳ us.”

“The Board⟳ of Health had ordered that cholera corpses were to be tarred and limed and buried quickly and deep, but even that didn't prevent⟳ some of them being carried off and sold to the anatomisers.”

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