4. The act of dividing anything, corporeal or intellectual, for the purpose of examining its parts; analysis; as, the anatomy of a discourse.
5. A skeleton; anything anatomized or dissected, or which has the appearance of being so.
The anatomy of a little child, representing all parts thereof, is accounted a greater rarity than the skeleton of a man in full stature.
Fuller.
They brought one Pinch, a hungry, lean-faced villain,
A mere anatomy.
Shak.
An`a*trep"tic (&?;), a. [overturning, fr. &?; to turn up or over; &?; + &?; too turn.] Overthrowing; defeating; -- applied to Plato's refutative dialogues. Enfield.
||An"a*tron (&?;), n. [F. anatron, natron, Sp. anatron, natron, fr. Ar. al- natrn. See Natron, Niter.] [Obs.] 1. Native carbonate of soda; natron.