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 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
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
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 John William Draper
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
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
