Dissatisfactory
(Dis*sat`is*fac"to*ry) a. Causing dissatisfaction; unable to give content; unsatisfactory; displeasing.
To have reduced the different qualifications in the different States to one uniform rule, would probably
have been as dissatisfactory to some of the States, as difficult for the Convention.
A. Hamilton. — Dis*sat`is*fac"to*ri*ness n.
Dissatisfy
(Dis*sat"is*fy) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dissatisfied ; p. pr. & vb. n. Dissatisfying.] To render
unsatisfied or discontented; to excite uneasiness in by frustrating wishes or expectations; to displease by
the want of something requisite; as, to be dissatisfied with one's fortune.
The dissatisfied factions of the autocracy.
Bancroft. Disseat
(Dis*seat") v. t. To unseat. [R.] Shak.
Dissect
(Dis*sect") v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dissected; p. pr. & vb. n. Dissecting.] [L. dissectus, p. p. of
dissecare; dis- + secare to cut. See Section.]
1. (Anat.) To divide into separate parts; to cut in pieces; to separate and expose the parts of, as an
animal or a plant, for examination and to show their structure and relations; to anatomize.
2. To analyze, for the purposes of science or criticism; to divide and examine minutely.
This paragraph . . . I have dissected for a sample.
Atterbury. Dissected
(Dis*sect"ed) a.
1. Cut into several parts; divided into sections; as, a dissected map.
2. (Bot.) Cut deeply into many lobes or divisions; as, a dissected leaf.
Dissectible
(Dis*sect"i*ble) a. Capable of being dissected, or separated by dissection. Paley.
Dissecting
(Dis*sect"ing), a.
1. Dividing or separating the parts of an animal or vegetable body; as, a dissecting aneurism, one which
makes its way between or within the coats of an artery.
2. Of or pertaining to, or received during, a dissection; as, a dissecting wound.
3. Used for or in dissecting; as, a dissecting knife; a dissecting microscope.
Dissection
(Dis*sec"tion) n. [Cf. F. 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, some part, or the whole, of an animal or plant dissected so as to exhibit
the structure; an anatomical so prepared.
Dissection wound, a poisoned wound incurred during the dissection of a dead body.
Dissector
(Dis*sect"or) n. [Cf. F. dissecteur.] One who dissects; an anatomist.
