The stretched and vivid anatomism of their [ i. e., the French ] great figure painters. The London Spectator. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The doctrine that the anatomical structure explains all the phenomena of the organism or of animal life. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To discriminate minutely or carefully; to analyze. [ 1913 Webster ]

If we anatomize all other reasonings of this nature, we shall find that they are founded on the relation of cause and effect. Hume. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The science which treats of the structure of organic bodies; anatomical structure or organization. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let the muscles be well inserted and bound together, according to the knowledge of them which is given us by anatomy. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ “Animal anatomy” is sometimes called zomy; “vegetable anatomy, ” phytotomy; “human anatomy, ” anthropotomy. [ 1913 Webster ]

Comparative anatomy compares the structure of different kinds and classes of animals. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A treatise or book on anatomy. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The act of dividing anything, corporeal or intellectual, for the purpose of examining its parts; analysis; as, the anatomy of a discourse. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A skeleton; anything anatomized or dissected, or which has the appearance of being so. [ 1913 Webster ]

The anatomy of a little child, representing all parts thereof, is accounted a greater rarity than the skeleton of a man in full stature. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

They brought one Pinch, a hungry, lean-faced villain,
A mere anatomy. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ These three definitions correspond to different views of the nature of the ultimate particles of matter. In the case of the last two, the particles are more correctly called molecules. Dana. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Chem.) The smallest particle of matter that can enter into combination; one of the elementary constituents of a molecule. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Anything extremely small; a particle; a whit. [ 1913 Webster ]

There was not an atom of water. Sir J. Ross. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Extremely minute; tiny. [ 1913 Webster ]

Atomic bomb, see atom bomb in the vocabulary. --
Atomic philosophy, or Doctrine of atoms, a system which, assuming that atoms are endued with gravity and motion, accounted thus for the origin and formation of all things. This philosophy was first broached by Leucippus, was developed by Democritus, and afterward improved by Epicurus, and hence is sometimes denominated the Epicurean philosophy. --
Atomic theory, or the Doctrine of definite proportions (Chem.), teaches that chemical combinations take place between the supposed ultimate particles or atoms of bodies, in some simple ratio, as of one to one, two to three, or some other, always expressible in whole numbers. --
Atomic weight (Chem.), the weight of the atom of an element as compared with the weight of the atom of hydrogen, taken as a standard. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. annihilation by reducing something to atoms.
Syn. -- atomization [ WordNet 1.5 ]

It is the object of the mechanical atomistic philosophy to confound synthesis with synartesis. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. divided into separate and often disparate elements; -- the opposite of holistic.
Syn. -- atomistical. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. (Med.) The reduction of fluids into fine spray. [ 1913 Webster ]

The liquids in the form of spray are said to be pulverized, nebulized, or atomized. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A particle or atom endowed with the vital principle. [ 1913 Webster ]

The individual is nothing. He is no more than the diatom, the bit of protoplasm. Mrs. E. Lynn Linton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Slaughtered hecatombs around them bleed. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

More than a human hecatomb. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]