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vivisect, v.|ˈvɪvɪsɛkt, vɪvɪˈsɛkt|
[Back-formation from vivisection.]
1. trans. To dissect (an animal) while living; to perform vivisection upon.
1864Daily Tel. 1 Aug., Much as they vivisect live animals at Alfort. 1876Ruskin Fors Clav. lxx. 320 Modern naturalists, not being able to vivisect the Psyche, have..resolved that animals are to be classed by their bones. 1890G. A. Smith Isaiah II. xii. 202 We do not vivisect our murderers nor kill them off by gladiatorial combats.
transf.1892W. H. Hudson Naturalist in La Plata 180 These insects..house them in cells where the grubs can vivisect them at leisure. 1893F. C. Selous Trav. S.E. Africa 413 The piteous cries..of a donkey being vivisected by hyænas.
b. fig. To investigate as if by vivisection; to examine or criticize minutely or mercilessly.
1876R. Broughton Joan i. xx, On the contrary, I live in hopes of seeing a successor or two [i.e. suitors] vivisected. 1880Ruskin in 19th Cent. June 950 The modern novelist..cannot easily, in a city population, find a healthy mind to vivisect.
2. intr. To practise vivisection.
1883S. Coleridge Vivisection 13 Surely a man must be at his wits' end before he could gravely put forward such an argument..in defence of a claim to vivisect by wholesale.
Hence vivisected ppl. a.; vivisecting vbl. n. and ppl. a.; also vivisecˈtee, that which is vivisected; viviˈsectible a., capable of being, liable to be, vivisected.
1859Todd's Cycl. Anat. V. 317/2 The artificial vomiting of *vivisected animals. 1880Meredith Tragic Com. v, The vivisected youth received the caress which quickened him to wholeness at a touch.
1886Pall Mall G. 3 June 5/2 Whether any attempt at the absolute prohibition of vivisection would not react to the disadvantage of the unhappy ‘*vivisectees’.
1875Hoggan Let. in Morn. Post 2 Feb., I am inclined to look upon anæsthetics as the greatest curse to *vivisectible animals.
1876J. J. G. Wilkinson Hum. Sci. & Div. Rev. 21 The *vivisecting scalpel is all human cruelty. Ibid. 67 Facts of life..which must for ever escape the vivisecting mind. 1890‘R. Boldrewood’ Miner's Right (1899) 59/2 The Doctor..looks at Cyrus with a vivisecting eye. Ibid. 65/2 He did not choose to adopt the vivisecting process permitted to counsel in the higher courts. 1897Our Dumb Animals (Boston) Nov. 70/2 The angel conducted him from one laboratory to another, from one vivisecting table to another. |
