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animalize

[an-uh-muh-lahyz] / ˈæn ə məˌlaɪz /


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Sharp alternations of violent action and self-indulgent repose; a hard run, and a long revel after it: this is what over-much horse tends to animalize a man into.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860 by Various

Then to animalize a substance, is only to destroy the obstacles that prevent its being active or sensible.

From The System of Nature, Volume 1 by Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'Holbach

Yet if his stories "animalized" characters, they also animated them with the elemental life of their time and condition.

From Time Magazine Archive

Even the intellect he shows seems actually animalized, and we shudder at its subtlety, as at the cunning of a reptile.

From Lectures on Art by Washington Allston

This is not all; up to the present time the animalized corpuscle we are considering is still only a primitive animalcule because it as yet has no special organ.

From Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work by A. S. (Alpheus Spring) Packard

But they eat, I observe, a very large proportion of fat, which is of a less animalized nature; and they particularly dislike dry meat, such as that of the Agouti.

From The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin

Nor is it analogous to other animal facts, that nutritious fluids secreted by the finest vessels of the body should be so little animalized, as to retain acetous or vegetable acidity.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin

“Often, it is only by anthropomorphizing animals and animalizing humans that the fictions that necessitate human borders can be propped up at all.”

From Washington Post ● Feb. 23, 2023

Without overdoing it, good animal books humanize animals while animalizing humans.

From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2022

The unconscious irony of the Epicurean poet on the animalizing tendency of his own philosophy.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster

The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster




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