Word Meanings - ANIMATING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Causing animation; life-giving; inspiriting; rousing. "Animating cries." Pope. -- An"i*ma`ting*ly, adv.

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• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• CAUSATIVE
  1. Effective, as a cause or agent; causing. Causative in nature of a number of effects. Bacon. 2. Expressing a cause or reason; causal; as, the ablative is a causative case.
• ANIMATING
  Causing animation; life-giving; inspiriting; rousing. "Animating cries." Pope. -- An"i*ma`ting*ly, adv.
• CAUSEWAYED; CAUSEYED
  Having a raised way ; paved. Sir W. Scott. C. Bronté.
• GIVES
  Fetters.
• CAUSATOR
  One who causes. Sir T. Browne.
• CAUSTICILY
  1. The quality of being caustic; corrosiveness; as, the causticity of potash. 2. Severity of language; sarcasm; as, the causticity of a reply or remark.
• GIVING
  1. The act of bestowing as a gift; a conferring or imparting. 2. A gift; a benefaction. Pope. 3. The act of softening, breaking, or yielding. "Upon the first giving of the weather." Addison. Giving in, a falling inwards; a collapse. -- Giving
• ROUSSETTE
  A fruit bat, especially the large species inhabiting the islands of the Indian ocean. It measures about a yard across the expanded wings.
• CAUSAL
  A causal word or form of speech. Anglo-Saxon drencan to drench, causal of Anglo-Saxon drincan to drink. Skeat.
• CAUSATIVELY
  In a causative manner.
• CAUSTICALLY
  In a caustic manner.
• CAUSATIONIST
  One who believes in the law of universal causation.
• ANIMATER
  One who animates. De Quincey.
• ANIMATION
  1. The act of animating, or giving life or spirit; the state of being animate or alive. The animation of the same soul quickening the whole frame. Bp. Hall. Perhaps an inanimate thing supplies me, while I am speaking, with whatever I posses of
• ANIMATED
  Endowed with life; full of life or spirit; indicating animation; lively; vigorous. "Animated sounds." Pope. "Animated bust." Gray. "Animated descriptions." Lewis.
• ROUSANT
  Rising; -- applied to a bird in the attitude of rising; also, sometmes, to a bird in profile with wings addorsed.
• GIVER
  One who gives; a donor; a bestower; a grantor; one who imparts or distributes. It is the giver, and not the gift, that engrosses the heart of the Christian. Kollock.
• ROUSER
  A stirrer in a copper for boiling wort. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, rouses. 2. Something very exciting or great.
• ANIMATOR
  One who, or that which, animates; an animater. Sir T. Browne.
• TROUSSEAU
  The collective lighter equipments or outfit of a bride, including clothes, jewelry, and the like; especially, that which is provided for her by her family.
• BARBAROUS
  slavish, rude, ignorant; akin to L. balbus stammering, Skr. barbara 1. Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a barbarous country. 2. Foreign; adapted to a barbaric taste. Barbarous
• CARNIVOROUS
  Eating or feeding on flesh. The term is applied: to animals which naturally seek flesh for food, as the tiger, dog, etc.; to plants which are supposed to absorb animal food; to substances which destroy animal tissue, as caustics.
• LUSTROUS
  Bright; shining; luminous. " Good sparks and lustrous." Shak. -- Lus"trous*ly, adv.
• GYPSIFEROUS
  Containing gypsum.
• INDECOROUSNESS
  The quality of being indecorous; want of decorum.
• ANTICAUSODIC
  See ANTICAUSOTIC
• CIRROUS
  Cirrose.
• PURPURIPAROUS
  Producing, or connected with, a purple-colored secretion; as, the purpuriparous gland of certain gastropods.
• ANANTHEROUS
  Destitute of anthers. Gray.
• POLYSPOROUS
  Containing many spores.
• MURIATIFEROUS
  Producing muriatic substances or salt.
• ONEROUS
  Burdensome; oppressive. "Too onerous a solicitude." I. Taylor. Onerous cause , a good and legal consideration; -- opposed to gratuitous.
• TETTEROUS
  Having the character of, or pertaining to, tetter.
• SEBIPAROUS
  See SEBIFEROUS
• VALOROUS
  Possessing or exhibiting valor; brave; courageous; valiant; intrepid. -- Val"or*ous*ly, adv.
• INNUMEROUS
  Innumerable. Milton.
• SOPORIFEROUS
  Causing sleep; somniferous; soporific. "Soporiferous medicine." Swift. --- Sop`o*rif"er*ous*ly, adv. -- Sop`o*rif"er*ous*ness, n.
• AGATIFEROUS
  Containing or producing agates. Craig.