anatomize

verb6

1. •
   (figurative) To scrutinize (something) down to the most minute detail.

   • I speake but brotherly of him, but should I anathomize him to thee, as hee is, I must blush, and vveepe, and thou must look pale and vvonder. — 1598
2. •
   (no longer used) To cut up or dissect (the body of a human being or an animal), specifically for the purpose of investigating its anatomy.

   • VVho but a Foppe vvil labour to anatomize a Flye? — 1592
3. •
   (no longer used) To punish (someone) by post mortem dissection following execution.

   • […] Surgeon's Hall, where malefactors were anatomised after execution—a Sanguinary but Salutary custom—was in the Old Bailey, over against the leads of the Sessions House […] — 1863
4. •
   (no longer used) To cut up or dissect (a plant or one of its parts) to investigate its structure.
5. •
   (no longer used) To cut up or dissect the body of a human being or an animal.

   • The most learned philosopher […] might dissect, anatomise, and give names; but, not to speak of a final cause, causes in their secondary and tertiary grades were utterly unknown to him. — 1831
6. •
   (figurative, no longer used) To chemically analyse (a substance).