Word Meanings - DISSECTED - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Cut deeply into many lobes or divisions; as, a dissected leaf. (more info) 1. Cut into several parts; divided into sections; as, a dissected map.
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- DIVIDER
An instrument for dividing lines, describing circles, etc., compasses. See Compasses. Note: The word dividers is usually applied to the instrument as made for the use of draughtsmen, etc.; compasses to the coarser instrument used by carpenters. - DIVIDEND
A number or quantity which is to be divided. (more info) 1. A sum of money to be divided and distributed; the share of a sum divided that falls to each individual; a distribute sum, share, or percentage; -- applied to the profits as appropriated - DISSECT
To divide into separate parts; to cut in pieces; to separate and expose the parts of, as an animal or a plant, for examination and to show their structure and relations; to anatomize. 2. To analyze, for the purposes of science or criticism; - DIVIDUOUS
Divided; dividual. He so often substantiates distinctions into dividuous, selfsubsistent. Coleridge. - DIVIDEDLY
Separately; in a divided manner. - DIVIDINGLY
By division. - SEVERALITY
Each particular taken singly; distinction. Bp. Hall. - SEVERALLY
Separately; distinctly; apart from others; individually. There must be an auditor to check and revise each severally by itself. De Quincey. - DIVIDED
Cut into distinct parts, by incisions which reach the midrib; - - said of a leaf. (more info) 1. Parted; disunited; distributed. - SEVERAL
1. Separate; distinct; particular; single. Each several ship a victory did gain. Dryden. Each might his several province well command, Would all but stoop to what they understand. Pope. 2. Diverse; different; various. Spenser. Habits and faculties, - DIVIDUALLY
By dividing. - DIVIDUAL
Divided, shared, or participated in, in common with others. Milton. - DIVIDANT
Different; distinct. Shak. - SEVERALTY
A state of separation from the rest, or from all others; a holding by individual right. Forests which had never been owned in severalty. Bancroft. Estate in severalty , an estate which the tenant holds in his own right, without being joined in - DISSECTING
1. Dividing or separating the parts of an animal or vegetable body; as, a dissecting aneurism, one which makes its way between or within the coats of an artery. 2. Of or pertaining to, or received during, a dissection; as, a dissecting wound. 3. - DISSECTION
1. The act of dissecting an animal or plant; as, dissection of the human body was held sacrilege till the time of Francis I. 2. Fig.: The act of separating or dividing for the purpose of critical examination. 3. Anything dissected; especially, - DIVIDING
That divides; separating; marking divisions; graduating. Dividing engine, a machine for graduating circles (as for astronomical instruments) or bars ; also, for spacing off and cutting teeth in wheels. -- Dividing sinker. . See under Sinker. - DIVIDE
To subject to arithmetical division. (more info) cf. Skr. vyadh to pierce; perh. akin to L. vidua widow, and E. widow. 1. To part asunder ; to sever into two or more parts or pieces; to sunder; to separate into parts. Divide the living child in - DEEPLY
1. At or to a great depth; far below the surface; as, to sink deeply. 2. Profoundly; thoroughly; not superficially; in a high degree; intensely; as, deeply skilled in ethics. He had deeply offended both his nobles and people. Bacon. He - DISSECTIBLE
Capable of being dissected, or separated by dissection. Paley. - SUBINDIVIDUAL
A division of that which is individual. An individual can not branch itself into subindividuals. Milton. - INDIVIDUALIZER
One who individualizes. - SUBDIVIDE
To divide the parts of into more parts; to part into smaller divisions; to divide again, as what has already been divided. The progenies of Cham and Japhet swarmed into colonies, and those colonies were subdivided into many others. Dryden. - REDIVIDE
To divide anew. - UNDIVIDUAL
Indivisible. True courage and courtesy are undividual companions. Fuller. - MISDIVIDE
To divide wrongly. - INDIVIDUATE
Undivided. - INDIVIDUATOR
One who, or that which, individuates. Sir K. Digby. - INDIVIDABLE
Indivisible. Shak.