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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
vivisect .
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Examples
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He's got a post on the Huffington Post that fillets, dissects and vivisects the Newsweek list of "50 Most Influential Rabbis."
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Orlando Patterson on The Race Card by Richard Thompson Ford: With a daring disregard for ideological propriety, Ford vivisects every sacred cow in 'post-racist' America.
An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs. 2008
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He's got a post on the Huffington Post that fillets, dissects and vivisects the Newsweek list of "50 Most Influential Rabbis."
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Kevin Allman properly vivisects Derbyshire's earlier piece here.
Archive 2007-02-01 2007
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Over the next nine issues–Complete Zeppelin Stories, like many other pulps, was bi-monthly–Zeppelin fought an increasingly colorful set of foes: the Prussian aviator Pontius Pilot; the Black Death, the “living disease;” Wu Fang, the Helium Mandarin; Dr. Okayuma, who vivisects spies in his zeppelin laboratory; Amenhotep, the simian Pharaoh of the Congo; and Baron Nosferatu, the Flying Vampire . . .
Great Flaming Gas Bags! Walter Jon Williams 2009
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Over the next nine issues–Complete Zeppelin Stories, like many other pulps, was bi-monthly–Zeppelin fought an increasingly colorful set of foes: the Prussian aviator Pontius Pilot; the Black Death, the “living disease;” Wu Fang, the Helium Mandarin; Dr. Okayuma, who vivisects spies in his zeppelin laboratory; Amenhotep, the simian Pharaoh of the Congo; and Baron Nosferatu, the Flying Vampire . . .
Archive 2009-09-01 Walter Jon Williams 2009
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Even Dr. Sturgeon, pioneering bravely, is unable to get beyond a sentimental and trivial view of the thing he vivisects, and so his book is no more than a compendium of mush.
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His undoubted comradeship, his plain kindliness toward the soul he vivisects, is not the fruit of moral certainty, but of moral agnosticism.
A Book of Prefaces 1918
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It is not in his capacity of healer and man of science that the doctor vivisects or defends vivisection, but in his entirely vulgar lay capacity.
The Doctor's Dilemma: Preface on Doctors George Bernard Shaw 1903
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"I am afraid that man vivisects," he said, in his gravest tone.
The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson) Stuart Dodgson Collingwood 1903
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