Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A vivisector; also, one who favors or defends the practice of vivisection.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who practices or advocates vivisection; a vivisector.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who practices or advocates
vivisection ; avivisector .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a biologist who cuts open live animals for research
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Examples
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The stereotype of the cruel "vivisectionist" that ALF and its fellow radicals like to promote just isn't true.
ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science Orac none@example.com 2010
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In The Island of Dr Moreau the visionary vivisectionist performs vile experiments on animals with the aim of remaking them as humans.
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Or else he probes them with the cruel hand of a vivisectionist, groping about in their mental processes and examining their souls as though to see of what soul-stuff is made.
Chapter 8 2010
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Perhaps he could sell himself to a vivisectionist to have this peculiar combination investigated.
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I'm willing to immediately undergo training as a vivisectionist to undergo this noble feat.
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You would remain on Don's subject for as long as Don wished to examine that subject, he with the air of a bemused vivisectionist.
Joyce Carol Oates's 'In the Absence of Mentors/Monsters': Narrative Magazine 2010
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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."
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You would remain on Don's subject for as long as Don wished to examine that subject, he with the air of a bemused vivisectionist.
Joyce Carol Oates's 'In the Absence of Mentors/Monsters': Narrative Magazine 2010
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Kingsford was a spiritualist, an anti-vivisectionist, a Theosophist and a Vegetarian.
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Kingsford was a spiritualist, an anti-vivisectionist, a Theosophist and a Vegetarian.
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