animalize
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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
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
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
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
“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
