anti-vivisectionist

The anti-slavery campaigner William Wilberforce was one of the early champions of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, while the American academic Kathleen Kete believes that the early feminists identified with the anti-vivisectionist lobby because "women came to identify with these animals as victims of male rationality."

Going to the dogs: our predilection for pets 2010

Kingsford was a spiritualist, an anti-vivisectionist, a Theosophist and a Vegetarian.

Victorian Vegetarians 2008

Kingsford was a spiritualist, an anti-vivisectionist, a Theosophist and a Vegetarian.

Archive 2008-06-01 2008

In "Una," his brilliance reaches heights of hilarity as the first artificial lifeform -- a conical monstrosity that happens to consider itself a woman -- falls in love with a representative of an anti-vivisectionist group.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

She took an active interest in various charities, became an anti-vivisectionist, and used very humanely to beat people about the head with her umbrella, if she caught them ill-treating animals.

The Life of Sir Richard Burton 2003

Almost the easiest thing to do with Shaw is to compile a list of his errors and inadequacies as playwright, pamphleteer, vegetarian, anti-vivisectionist, lover, husband, human being, self-confessed great man.

Pshaw! Mudrick, Marvin 1964

As a result, an ardent and militant anti-vivisectionist.

Nelka Mrs. Helen de Smirnoff Moukhanoff, 1878-1963, a Biographical Sketch Michael Moukhanoff

When the Waynflete chair of physiology was established at Oxford in 1882, he was chosen to be its first occupant, and immediately found himself the object of a furious anti-vivisectionist agitation.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various

Her mother had saved him from a horrid death during her anti-vivisectionist days, and as a reward, Nosey had ruined every rug in the Boston house, chewed up all the draperies, and deliberately guided burglars to the hidden wall safe in the library.

The Criminal C.O.D Taylor, Phoebe Atwood, 1909-1976 1940

One may even be an anti-vivisectionist; but when a dog is mad, the only humanitarian thing to do is to kill it.

Out To Win The Story of America in France Coningsby Dawson 1921