The Collaborative International Dictionary
Anatomize \A*nat"o*mize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Anatomized; p. pr. & vb. n. Anatomizing.] [Cf. F. anatomiser.]
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.
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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.
--Hume.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: anatomize)
Usage examples of "anatomized".
You see a little ugly thing like an anatomized ape,--there, see,--he has just thrown down a chair, and, in stooping to pick it up, has almost fallen over the Dutch ambassadress,--that is Louis Armand, Prince of Conti.
If you have any knowledge of our literature, and can give me the name of any man, American born and bred, who has anatomized our follies as a people, and not as this or that party.
I would gladly have him seehis company anatomized, that he might take a measureof his own judgments, wherein so curiously he hadset this counterfeit.