Verb (used with object), : The couple anatomized their new neighbor.    From Dictionary.com. 

And I doubt not but that in the end you will say with me, that to anatomise this humour aright, through all the members of this our.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference

He was tame in comparison with Mr Gowan, who knew how to address me on equal terms, and how to anatomise the wretched people around us.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Dorrit] Reference

Mostly, too, Cooke has succeeded, particularly in producing plays that anatomise the state of the nation without standing on a soapbox.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dominic Cooke: a life in theatre] Reference

He might dissect, anatomise, and give names; but, not to speak of a final cause, causes in their secondary and tertiary grades were utterly unknown to him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 2] Reference

And, of course, The Gathering isn't a simple thing at all - it's a genuine attempt to stare down both love and death, to anatomise their pains and fears and peculiar pleasures.    From Wordnik.com.  [TEV GIVEAWAY: THE GATHERING] Reference

While seeking out and trying to anatomise the strange gardens abandoned in place by Avernus, the Outers' greatest genius, the gene wizard Sri Hong-Owen is embroiled in the plots and counterplots of the family that employs her.    From Wordnik.com.  [For Your Viewing Pleasure: Gardens of the Sun] Reference

McElhone might not be as self-consciously erudite as Joan Didion in The Year of Magical Thinking, nor does she seek to anatomise the process of grieving, as CS Lewis did in A Grief Observed, but her greatest strength is her lack of style: she gets straight to the point; she tells us how it is.    From Wordnik.com.  [After You: Letters of Love, and Loss, to a Husband and Father by Natascha McElhone] Reference

The three precedent species are the subject of my present discourse, which I will anatomise and treat of through all their causes, symptoms, cures, together and apart; that every man that is in any measure affected with this malady, may know how to examine it in himself, and apply remedies unto it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference

Does he anatomise his character, moral and poetical?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals] Reference

We can dissect the human frame, and anatomise the mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thoughts on Man: His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries] Reference

'Then let them anatomise Regan, see what breeds about her heart.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth] Reference

His intellect was electrical: it struck before they had time to anatomise it.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution] Reference

Salinger used the voice of an educated teenage city boy to anatomise post-war America.    From Wordnik.com.  [Culture | guardian.co.uk] Reference

I am content to lay in a stock of ideas then, and to examine and anatomise them afterwards.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bed-Book of Happiness] Reference

Franzen found that it was much harder to give up the impulse to anatomise the culture than the.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Statesman] Reference

Should I anatomise him to you as he is, I must blush and weep, and you must look pale and wonder.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cardinal's Snuff-Box] Reference

Can you explain their operations, and anatomise that fine internal structure on which they depend?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion] Reference

His collected and calm manner could not prevent her blood from running cold, as he thus tried to anatomise his old condition.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Tale of Two Cities] Reference

As much, at least, replied PHILO, as CLEANTHES can explain the operations of reason, or anatomise that internal structure on which it depends.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion] Reference

Moral life, like all life, is a mystery; and as to anatomise the body will not reveal the secret of animation, so with the actions of the moral man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Short Studies on Great Subjects] Reference

I could blame it on my rebellious streak or the tendency to wear my heart on sleeve; but today, I'm not going to anatomise every single detail and play it back like a broken tape.    From Wordnik.com.  [fading_sanity] Reference

An amateur anthropologist who had been denied an education because of his family's political ignominy, Baldaev struggled to anatomise on paper the system that defined him, and in which he was complicit.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

Consider, anatomise the eye; survey its structure and contrivance; and tell me, from your own feeling, if the idea of a contriver does not immediately flow in upon you with a force like that of sensation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion] Reference

We look into our own bosoms, observe attentively every thing that passes there, anatomise our motives, trace step by step the operations of thought, and diligently remark the effects of external impulses upon our feelings and conduct.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thoughts on Man: His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries] Reference

Such phenomena are neither physiologically nor psychologically impossible, but our modern physiologists are content to take the mere poor form of nature, dissect it, anatomise it, and then bury it beneath the sand of their hypotheses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 1] Reference

I would always rather paint them than anatomise them. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lovels of Arden] Reference

Downright doggrel; "and proceeded to anatomise them very cordially in his way.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits] Reference

That Mansoul and her wars anatomise.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Common Room] Reference

Whose beams anatomise me nerve by nerve.    From Wordnik.com.  [Act I. Scene II] Reference

To anatomise the frame of social life; 280.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE PRELUDE BOOK ELEVENTH] Reference

A dogg, crow, kite, raven, or any bird or any thing to anatomise; only sum few miserable poeple the reliques of the war and the plauge, where famine had made anatomies before I came. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Fathers of Biology] Reference