animalize

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

From all this they deduced a lofty theory which embraces all mankind, and all that portion of creation which may be animalized.

From The Physiology of Taste by Fayette Robinson

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

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

Many were too far gone to imitate anything but their own animalized selves.

From The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 by Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe

“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