Analysed
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to separate (a material or abstract ent-ty) into const-tuent parts or elements; determine the elements or essential features of (opposed to ):
to -n-lyze an argument.
to examine critically, so as to bring out the essential elements or give the essence of:
to -n-lyze a poem.
to examine carefully and in detail so as to identify causes, key factors, possible results, etc.
to subject to mathematical, chemical, grammatical, etc., .
to :
a patient who has been -n-lyzed by two therapists.
verb (transitive)
to examine in detail in order to discover meaning, essential features, etc
to break down into components or essential features: to -n-lyse a financial structure
to make a mathematical, chemical, grammatical, etc, -n-lysis of
another word for psycho-n-lyse
v.
chiefly british english spelling of -n-lyze (q.v.).
-n-lyse is better than -n-lyze, but merely as being the one of the two equally indefensible forms that has won. the correct but now impossible form would be -n-lysize (or -n-lysise), with -n-lysist for existing -n-lyst. [fowler]
v.
c.1600, “to dissect,” from french -n-lyser, from -n-lyse (see -n-lysis). literature sense is attested from 1610s; meaning in chemistry dates from 1660s. general sense of “to examine closely” dates from 1809; psychological sense is from 1909. related: -n-lyzed; -n-lyzing.
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