anatomize
/əˈnætəmaɪz/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.10 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To cut up or dissect (the body of a human being or an animal), specifically for the purpose of investigating its anatomy.
American usage; Archaic; Transitive verb
verb
To cut up or dissect (the body of a human being or an animal), specifically for the purpose of investigating its anatomy.
American usage; Archaic; Transitive verb
verb
To cut up or dissect (a plant or one of its parts) to investigate its structure.
American usage; Archaic; Transitive verb
verb
To scrutinize (something) down to the most minute detail.
American usage; Archaic; Transitive verb
verb
To cut up or dissect the body of a human being or an animal.
American usage; Archaic; Intransitive verb
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."
- "[…] Surgeon's Hall, where malefactors were anatomised after execution—a Sanguinary but Salutary custom—was in the Old Bailey, over against the leads of the Sessions House […]"
Etymology
From Late Middle English anatomisen, anatomien, anatomen (“to dissect in order to investigate”) borrowed from Middle French anatomiser (modern French anatomiser), or from its etymon Medieval Latin anatomizō, from Latin anatomia (“anatomy”) + -izō. Anatomia is derived from ἀνατομή (anatomḗ, “act of cutting up, dissection”) + -ia (suffix forming feminine abstract nouns); ἀνατομή (anatomḗ) is from ἀνᾰτέμνω (anătémnō, “to cut open”) (from ᾰ̓νᾰ- (ănă-, “up”) + τέμνω (témnō, “to cut, hew; to butcher”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *temh₁- (“to cut”))) + -η (-ē, suffix forming action nouns). By surface analysis, anatomy + -ize (suffix forming (chiefly similative) verbs).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: anatomisen, anatomiser, anatomizō, anatomia, *temh₁-
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /əˈnætəmaɪz/
- British English: /əˈnætəmaɪz/
Usage
- American usage
- Archaic
- Transitive verb
- Obsolete
- Intransitive verb
Inflected Forms
anatomizes (present, singular)
anatomizing (participle, present)
anatomized (participle, past)
anatomized (past)
no-table-tags (table tags)
glossary (inflection template)
anatomized (first person, past)
anatomizest (archaic, present)
anatomized (past, second person)
anatomizedst (archaic, past)
anatomizeth (archaic, present)
anatomized (past, singular)
Derived Forms
anatomization
anatomisation
anatomizer
anatomiser
unanatomizable
unanatomisable
unanatomized
unanatomised