Word Meanings - ANIMALIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To endow with the properties of an animal; to represent in animal form. Warburton. 2. To convert into animal matter by the processes of assimilation. 3. To render animal or sentient; to reduce to the state of a lower animal; to sensualize. The

Additional info about word: ANIMALIZE

1. To endow with the properties of an animal; to represent in animal form. Warburton. 2. To convert into animal matter by the processes of assimilation. 3. To render animal or sentient; to reduce to the state of a lower animal; to sensualize. The unconscious irony of the Epicurean poet on the animalizing tendency of his own philosophy. Coleridge.

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• ANIMALIZATION
  1. The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties. 2. Conversion into animal matter by the process of assimilation. Owen.
• CONVERTIBILITY
  The condition or quality of being convertible; capability of being exchanged; convertibleness. The mutual convertibility of land into money, and of money into land. Burke.
• ANIMALCULISM
  The theory which seeks to explain certain physiological and pathological by means of animalcules.
• ANIMALITY
  Animal existence or nature. Locke.
• REDUCEMENT
  Reduction. Milton.
• REPRESENTABLE
  Capable of being represented.
• ANIMALLY
  Physically. G. Eliot.
• ANIMALNESS
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• LOWERMOST
  Lowest.
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• ANIMALCULIST
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• ENDOWMENT
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  Cloudy; gloomy; lowering; as, a lowery sky; lowery weather.
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  In a convertible manner.
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  Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton.
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  Not turned or changed about. Sir T. Browne.
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