[f. as VIVISECT v. + -OR. Hence F. vivisecteur.] One who vivisects or practises vivisection.
1839. Belfast News Letter, 18 Jan., 1/2. Amidst a variety of horrible abuses of scientific pretension, it exposes in a masterly manner the brutalities of Magendie, and other ‘vivisectors’ of the same tribe.
1863. Times, 11 Aug., 6/6. That is the extent of the tender mercies of French vivisectors.
1876. J. J. G. Wilkinson, Hum. Sci. & Div. Rev., 20. No man not interested personally, but humanely, can doubt what the vivisectors are doing.
fig. 1874. J. H. Blunt. Dict. Sects, 237/2. Pascal was the vivisector rather than the anatomist.
1899. Beatrice Harraden, Fowler, 115. He had plunged deep into inquiry, and was in fact a theological and historical vivisector.
