animalize

Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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 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 Robinson, Fayette

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 Darwin, Erasmus

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 Darwin, Charles