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Word Meanings - ANDROTOMY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Dissection of the human body, as distinguished from zoötomy; anthropotomy.

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  • ANTHROPOTOMY
    The anatomy or dissection of the human body; androtomy. Owen.
  • HUMANIFY
    To make human; to invest with a human personality; to incarnate. The humanifying of the divine Word. H. B. Wilson.
  • HUMANIZE
    To convert into something human or belonging to man; as, to humanize vaccine lymph. (more info) 1. To render human or humane; to soften; to make gentle by overcoming cruel dispositions and rude habits; to refine or civilize. Was it the business
  • HUMANITARIANISM
    The distinctive tenet of the humanitarians in denying the divinity of Christ; also, the whole system of doctrine based upon this view of Christ.
  • HUMANISM
    1. Human nature or disposition; humanity. looked almost like a being who had rejected with indifference the attitude of sex for the loftier quality of abstract humanism. T. Hardy. 2. The study of the humanities; polite learning.
  • HUMANISTIC
    1. Of or pertaining to humanity; as, humanistic devotion. Caird. 2. Pertaining to polite kiterature. M. Arnold.
  • HUMANITY
    The branches of polite or elegant learning; as language, rhetoric, poetry, and the ancient classics; belles-letters. Note: The cultivation of the languages, literature, history, and archæology of Greece and Rome, were very commonly called literæ
  • HUMANIST
    1. One of the scholars who in the field of literature proper represented the movement of the Renaissance, and early in the 16th century adopted the name Humanist as their distinctive title. Schaff- Herzog. 2. One who purposes the study
  • HUMANKIND
    Mankind. Pope.
  • DISTINGUISHABLE
    1. Capable of being distinguished; separable; divisible; discernible; capable of recognition; as, a tree at a distance is distinguishable from a shrub. A simple idea being in itself uncompounded . . . is not distinguishable into different ideas.
  • DISTINGUISH
    di- = dis- + stinguere to quench, extinguish; prob. orig., to prick, and so akin to G. stechen, E. stick, and perh. sting. Cf. 1. Not set apart from others by visible marks; to make distinctive or discernible by exhibiting differences; to mark
  • DISTINGUISHMENT
    Observation of difference; distinction. Graunt.
  • HUMANITIAN
    A humanist. B. Jonson.
  • DISTINGUISHABLY
    So as to be distinguished.
  • DISTINGUISHING
    Constituting difference, or distinction from everything else; distinctive; peculiar; characteristic. The distinguishing doctrines of our holy religion. Locke. Distinguishing pennant , a special pennant by which any particular vessel in a fleet
  • HUMANIZER
    One who renders humane.
  • DISTINGUISHABLENESS
    The quality of being distinguishable.
  • HUMANATE
    Indued with humanity. Cranmer.
  • DISTINGUISHINGLY
    With distinction; with some mark of preference. Pope.
  • DISTINGUISHED
    1. Marked; special. The most distinguished politeness. Mad. D' Arblay. 2. Separated from others by distinct difference; having, or indicating, superiority; eminent or known; illustrious; -- applied to persons and deeds. Syn. -- Marked;
  • CONTRADISTINGUISH
    To distinguish by a contrast of opposite qualities. These are our complex ideas of soul and body, as contradistinguished. Locke.
  • INHUMANITY
    The quality or state of being inhuman; cruelty; barbarity. Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn. Burns.
  • INDISTINGUISHABLE
    Not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct; hence, not capable of being perceived or known; as, in the distance the flagship was indisguishable; the two copies were indisguishable in form
  • INDISTINGUISHING
    Making no difference; indiscriminative; impartial; as, indistinguishing liberalities. Johnson.
  • INHUMANLY
    In an inhuman manner; cruelly; barbarously.
  • INHUMAN
    1. Destitute of the kindness and tenderness that belong to a human being; cruel; barbarous; savage; unfeeling; as, an inhuman person or people. 2. Characterized by, or attended with, cruelty; as, an inhuman act or punishment. Syn. --
  • TRANSHUMAN
    More than human; superhuman. Words may not tell of that transhuman change. H. F. Cary.

 

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