animalize
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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 Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'
Yet if his stories "animalized" characters, they also animated them with the elemental life of their time and condition.
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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 not only is it this grand fact that confronts us, we have to admit also a primitive animalized state, and a slow, a gradual development.
From History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science by Draper, John William
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 Packard, A. S. (Alpheus Spring)
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
“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 Webster, Noah
The unconscious irony of the Epicurean poet on the animalizing tendency of his own philosophy.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah