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Vivisect

Vivisect \Viv"i*sect`\, v. t. To perform vivisection upon; to dissect alive. [Colloq.]
--Pop. Sci. Monthly.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
vivisect

1852, back-formation from vivisection. Related: Vivisected; vivisecting.

Wiktionary
vivisect

vb. To perform vivisection upon; to dissect alive.

WordNet
vivisect

v. cut (a body) open while still alive; "people no longer vivisect animals--it's considered unethical"

Usage examples of "vivisect".

But then I saw that the attempt to scientize reality, to name it and classify it and vivisect it out of existence, was like trying to remove all the air from atmosphere.

If the people knew of these sufferings, they would insist that the number of animals annually vivisected should be limited, and that no animal rearing its young should be experimented upon.

If the people knew of these sufferings, they would insist that the number of animals annually vivisected should be limited, and that no animal rearing its young should be experimented upon.

Indeed, according to Fallopius, another famous scientist, the Duke of Tuscany would occasionally send live criminals to be vivisected, thus making their punishment redound to the benefit of science.

Nick Rael, filled it with boiled sugarwater and red food coloring as instructed, and attached it to a branch of the tipped-over cottonwood vivisecting his outhouse.

A dozen complete torsos had been messily vivisected, and from the few with heads attached and the expression on their faces, Silence had no doubt at all that these men and women had been alive and aware when the vivisection began.

Jagron cringed behind his green-tinted faceplate and turned away from the desiccated, vivisected corpse they had found in what appeared to be a medical laboratory.

After that, they would be placed on the tables and the viewscreen overhead would permit the Colonization Board on Slistia, as well as the Extermination Force Board, to learn the physical structure of the natives as Sesnar methodically vivisected them.

But I need another trained hand to help me con the ship, damaged and vivisected as she is.

I would bind myself, dentures fractured or hopelessly mislaid, in horrible chambres garnies where I would be entertained at tedious vivisecting parties that generally ended with Charlotte or Valeria weeping in my bleeding arms and being tenderly kissed by my brotherly lips in a dream disorder of auctioneered Viennese bric--brac, pity, impotence and the brown wigs of tragic old women who had just been gassed.

And but everyone who's anyone'll be down at the Lung, watching the Vaughts vivisect some adult-ranked Nucks, plus maybe Wayne,75 then the E.

Because as soon as all the rooster feathers and bunny fur had been blown from the chopping block dust into the tangled branches of the cottonwood vivisecting Herbie's outhouse, the Armijos' dog, Es-peranza, went into heat.

This new awareness began (one week after he sprained his thumb shooting skunks) when he bought a hummingbird feeder from Nick Rael, filled it with boiled sugarwater and red food coloring as instructed, and attached it to a branch of the tipped-over cottonwood vivisecting his outhouse.

And so he had begun by vivisecting himself, as he had ended by vivisecting others.

Never mind the time when he had rescued Tempus from the vivisecting monster Kurd.