anatomiser

English

Etymology

anatomise +‎ -er

Noun

anatomiser (plural anatomisers)

1. Alternative form of anatomizer
   • 1845, William Whewell, Indications of the Creator:

     He adds, " It is well known that the anatomisers of plants and animals, in order to investigate their structure, and to obtain an insight into the grounds why and to what end such parts, why such a situation and connexion of the parts, and exactly such an internal form, come before them, assume, as indispensably necessary, this maxim, that in such a creature nothing is in vain, and proceed upon it in the same way in which in general natural philosophy we proceed upon the principle that nothing happens by chance..."

   • 1854, Anne Marsh-Caldwell, Aubrey, page 48:

     That means celebrity in an evil sense, you anatomisers of words would, I suppose, tell us.

   • 2013, Laurie Graham, The Liar's Daughter, →ISBN:

     The Board of Health had ordered that cholera corpses were to be tarred and limed and buried quickly and deep, but even that didn't prevent some of them being carried off and sold to the anatomisers.

Anagrams

• estromania

French

Etymology

From anatomie +‎ -iser.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.na.tɔ.mi.ze/

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Verb

anatomiser

1. to anatomize

Conjugation

Conjugation of anatomiser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	anatomiser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	anatomisant /a.na.tɔ.mi.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		anatomisé /a.na.tɔ.mi.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	anatomise /a.na.tɔ.miz/	anatomises /a.na.tɔ.miz/	anatomise /a.na.tɔ.miz/	anatomisons /a.na.tɔ.mi.zɔ̃/	anatomisez /a.na.tɔ.mi.ze/	anatomisent /a.na.tɔ.miz/
	imperfect	anatomisais /a.na.tɔ.mi.zɛ/	anatomisais /a.na.tɔ.mi.zɛ/	anatomisait /a.na.tɔ.mi.zɛ/	anatomisions /a.na.tɔ.mi.zjɔ̃/	anatomisiez /a.na.tɔ.mi.zje/	anatomisaient /a.na.tɔ.mi.zɛ/
	past historic2	anatomisai /a.na.tɔ.mi.ze/	anatomisas /a.na.tɔ.mi.za/	anatomisa /a.na.tɔ.mi.za/	anatomisâmes /a.na.tɔ.mi.zam/	anatomisâtes /a.na.tɔ.mi.zat/	anatomisèrent /a.na.tɔ.mi.zɛʁ/
	future	anatomiserai /a.na.tɔ.miz.ʁe/	anatomiseras /a.na.tɔ.miz.ʁa/	anatomisera /a.na.tɔ.miz.ʁa/	anatomiserons /a.na.tɔ.miz.ʁɔ̃/	anatomiserez /a.na.tɔ.miz.ʁe/	anatomiseront /a.na.tɔ.miz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	anatomiserais /a.na.tɔ.miz.ʁɛ/	anatomiserais /a.na.tɔ.miz.ʁɛ/	anatomiserait /a.na.tɔ.miz.ʁɛ/	anatomiserions /a.na.tɔ.mi.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	anatomiseriez /a.na.tɔ.mi.zə.ʁje/	anatomiseraient /a.na.tɔ.miz.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	anatomise /a.na.tɔ.miz/	anatomises /a.na.tɔ.miz/	anatomise /a.na.tɔ.miz/	anatomisions /a.na.tɔ.mi.zjɔ̃/	anatomisiez /a.na.tɔ.mi.zje/	anatomisent /a.na.tɔ.miz/
	imperfect2	anatomisasse /a.na.tɔ.mi.zas/	anatomisasses /a.na.tɔ.mi.zas/	anatomisât /a.na.tɔ.mi.za/	anatomisassions /a.na.tɔ.mi.za.sjɔ̃/	anatomisassiez /a.na.tɔ.mi.za.sje/	anatomisassent /a.na.tɔ.mi.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	anatomise /a.na.tɔ.miz/	—	anatomisons /a.na.tɔ.mi.zɔ̃/	anatomisez /a.na.tɔ.mi.ze/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “anatomiser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.