vivisectionist
Americannoun
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a person who practises vivisection
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a person who advocates the practice of vivisection as being useful or necessary to science
Etymology
Origin of vivisectionist
First recorded in 1875–80; vivisection + -ist
Example Sentences
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“The Woman in Black” isn’t especially scary, but it keeps you on edge, and without the usual vivisectionist imagery.
From New York Times • Feb. 2, 2012
When my family decided to get a second rescue dog, I felt it was my job to prove to the groups we contacted that I wasn’t a vivisectionist.
From Slate • Jan. 26, 2012
He was an anti-Prohibitionist, vivisectionist, author of numerous medical books.
From Time Magazine Archive
The really scientific investigator answers that the question cannot be settled by hysterical protestations, and that if the vivisectionist rejects deductive reasoning, he had better clear his character by his own favorite method of experiment.
From The Doctor's Dilemma: Preface on Doctors by Shaw, Bernard
For an out-and-out, cold-blooded vivisectionist of ideals, you’re the heavy-weight champion of the scalpel, Davy—and you used to write poetry.
From Lost Farm Camp by Knibbs, Harry Herbert
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