Definition of "vivisectionist" []

• One who practices or advocates vivisection; a vivisector. (noun)

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• "The stereotype of the cruel "vivisectionist" that ALF and its fellow radicals like to promote just isn't true."
• "In The Island of Dr Moreau the visionary vivisectionist performs vile experiments on animals with the aim of remaking them as humans."
• "Or else he probes them with the cruel hand of a vivisectionist, groping about in their mental processes and examining their souls as though to see of what soul-stuff is made."