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Dissented vs Dissected - What's the difference?

dissented | dissected |

As verbs the difference between dissented and dissected

is that dissented is (dissent) while dissected is (dissect).

dissented

English

Verb

(head)
  • (dissent)

    • dissent

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To disagree; to withhold assent. Construed with from'' (or, formerly, ''to ).
  • * 1827 Thomas Jarman, Powell's Essay on Devises 2.293:
    • Where a trustee refuses either to assent or dissent , the Court will itself exercise his authority.
  • * 1830 Isaac D'Israeli, Commentaries on the Life and Reign of Charles the First 3.9.207:
    • Those who openly dissented from the acts which the King had carried through the Parliament.
  • To differ from , especially in opinion, beliefs, etc.
  • * 1654 John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon the Book of Job 33.32:
    • Some are so eristical and teasty, that they will not ... bear with any that dissent .
  • * 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2):
    • Natural reason dictates, that motion ought to be assigned to the bodies, which in kind and essence most agree with those bodies which do undoubtedly move, and rest to those which most dissent from them.
  • * 1871 George Grote, Fragments on Ethical Subjects 2.37:
    • If the public dissent from our views, we say that they ought to concur with us.
  • (obsolete) To be different; to have contrary characteristics.
    • (Hooker)

    Antonyms

    * (disagree) agree, assent, follow, allow, accept

    References

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Disagreement with the ideas, doctrines, decrees, etc. of a political party, government or religion.
  • An act of disagreeing with, or deviating from, the views and opinions of those holding authority.
  • (Anglo-American common law) A separate opinion filed in a case by judges who disagree with the outcome of the majority of the court in that case
  • (sports)
  • * 2014 , Jacob Steinberg, " Wigan shock Manchester City in FA Cup again to reach semi-finals", The Guardian , 9 March 2014:
    • City had been woeful, their anger at their own inertia summed up when Samir Nasri received a booking for dissent , and they did not have a shot on target until the 66th minute.

    Antonyms

    * agreement, assent, consensus, capitulation

    Related terms

    * minority report

    See also

    * majority opinion

    Anagrams

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    dissected

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (dissect)

    • dissect

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To study an animal's anatomy by cutting it apart; to perform a necropsy or an autopsy.
  • To study a plant or other organism's anatomy similarly.
  • To analyze an idea in detail by separating it into its parts.
  • (transitive, anatomy, surgery) To separate muscles, organs, and so on without cutting into them or disrupting their architecture.
    • Now dissect the triceps away from its attachment on the humerus.
  • (pathology) Of an infection or foreign material, following the fascia separating muscles or other organs.

    • Derived terms

    * dissection

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