Dissected
[daɪ'sektɪd;dɪ-]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Dissect
(a.) Cut into several parts; divided into sections; as, a dissected map.
(a.) Cut deeply into many lobes or divisions; as, a dissected leaf.
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Examples
- Lubbock made drawings for me, with the camera lucida, of the jaws which I dissected from the workers of the several sizes. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Rather than pass upon an uncertainty, the experiment will be dissected and checked minutely in order to obtain absolute knowledge, pro and con. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- She made few distinctions; she allowed scarcely any one to be good; she dissected impartially almost all her acquaintance. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He dissected specimens of fifty different species of an imals. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
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