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animalize

[an-uh-muh-lahyz] / ˈæn ə məˌlaɪz /


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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

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

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

Indeed, he seems to have a thoroughly animalized intellect, destitute of the notion of relations, with ideas which are but the form of determinations, and which derive their force, not from reason, but from will.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 by Various

The blood is not either highly arterialized or animalized.

From Beauty Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classificatin of Beauty in Woman by Alexander Walker

The particles of which it is composed having a great similitude with those of which we are formed may easily be animalized when they are subjected to the vital action of our digestive organs.

From The Physiology of Taste by Fayette Robinson

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

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster

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

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster




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