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
Or else he probes them with the cruel hand of a vivisectionist, groping about in their mental processes and examining their souls as though to see of what soul-stuff is made.
From The Sea Wolf by Jack London
He is not an anti- vivisectionist, for he agrees with the unanimous conclusion of his associates that "experiments upon animals, adequately safeguarded by laws faithfully administered, are morally justifiable."
From An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals by Albert Leffingwell
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