Meanings of anatomise in English

We can dissect the human frame, and anatomise the mind.

I would always rather paint them than anatomise them.

Can you explain their operations, and anatomise that fine internal structure on which they depend?

I am content to lay in a stock of ideas then, and to examine and anatomise them afterwards.

The film seeks to anatomise the development of Walt Disney's deservedly beloved 1964 adaptation of PL Travers's Mary Poppins.

I know well enough what death and pleasure are; let no man give himself the trouble to anatomise them to me.

His collected and calm manner could not prevent her blood from running cold, as he thus tried to anatomise his old condition.

As much, at least, replied PHILO, as CLEANTHES can explain the operations of reason, or anatomise that internal structure on which it depends.

He could achieve it via the electoral college, another anachronism Litt anatomises with ease.

Here is another of these absurd soul-anatomising scruples which have risen up in me.

The movie appears to content itself with anatomising the huge geopolitical hypocrisy of it all.

The weight of the past, and particularly of the dark European past anatomised so exhaustively by W.G.

Three other dolphins were hauled up in quick succession, and taken forward to be anatomised by the surgeon.

The bones are as completely freed from flesh as if they had been anatomised, and perfectly white and dry.

Annihilation beckoned, in an apocalyptic guise that was nevertheless anatomised far more precisely than the visions of any mediaeval mystic.

Instead, the violent eruption of the Parisian banlieues was anatomised by reference to a body politic sickening with pathological metaphors.