Word Meanings - ANTHROPOTOMY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The anatomy or dissection of the human body; androtomy. Owen.

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• 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.
• HUMANITIAN
  A humanist. B. Jonson.
• HUMANIZER
  One who renders humane.
• HUMANATE
  Indued with humanity. Cranmer.
• HUMAN
  A human being. Sprung of humans that inhabit earth. Chapman. We humans often find ourselves in strange position. Prof. Wilson.
• HUMANNESS
  The quality or state of being human.
• HUMANICS
  The study of human nature. T. W. Collins.
• HUMANE
  1. Pertaining to man; human. Jer. Taylor. 2. Having the feelings and inclinations creditable to man; having a disposition to treat other human beings or animals with kindness; kind; benevolent. Of an exceeding courteous and humane inclination.
• DISSECTION
  1. The act of dissecting an animal or plant; as, dissection of the human body was held sacrilege till the time of Francis I. 2. Fig.: The act of separating or dividing for the purpose of critical examination. 3. Anything dissected; especially,
• HUMANIZATION
  The act of humanizing. M. Arnold.
• ANATOMY
  1. The art of dissecting, or artificially separating the different parts of any organized body, to discover their situation, structure, and economy; dissection. 2. The science which treats of the structure of organic bodies; anatomical structure
• HUMANLY
  1. In a human manner; after the manner of men; according to the knowledge or wisdom of men; as, the present prospects, humanly speaking, promise a happy issue. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. Kindly; humanely. Pope.
• ANDROTOMY
  Dissection of the human body, as distinguished from zoötomy; anthropotomy.
• INHUMANITY
  The quality or state of being inhuman; cruelty; barbarity. Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn. Burns.
• 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.
• DEHUMANIZE
  To divest of human qualities, such as pity, tenderness, etc.; as, dehumanizing influences.
• SUPERHUMAN
  Above or beyond what is human; sometimes, divine; as, superhuman strength; superhuman wisdom.
• TRANSHUMANIZE
  To make more than human; to purity; to elevate above humanity. Souls purified by sorrow and self-denial, transhumanized to the divine abstraction of pure contemplation. Lowell.