| Figure Name | dialysis | 
| Source | Silva Rhetoricae (http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/Silva.htm); Blount (1653) 17 ("division") | 
| Earliest Source | None | 
| Synonyms | dialisis, divisio, the dismembrer | 
| Etymology | None | 
| Type | Chroma | 
| Linguistic Domain | Semantic | 
| Definition | 1. To spell out alternatives, or to present either-or arguments that lead to a conclusion. 3. "to anatomize it into severall parts, and to examine it according to severall circumstances;" (Blount) | 
| Example | [For Definition #1] 3. "He neither saved the young men, as pittying the unripe flower of their youth; nor aged men, as respecting their gravity; nor children, as pardoning their weakness; nor women, as having compassion on their Sex; Souldier, Clergyman, Citizen; armed or unarmed, resisting or submitting, all within the Town were destroyed by the fury of that bloody Executioner." (Blount) | 
| Kind Of | Opposition | 
| Part Of | |
| Related Figures | Figures of Division | 
| Notes | |
| Confidence | Unconfident | 
| Last Editor | Mark Carter | 
| Confidence | Unconfident | 
| Editorial Notes | |
| Reviewed | No |