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Webster 1913 Edition
Animalize
An′i-mal-ize
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Animalized
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Animalizing
.] [Cf. F.
animaliser
.] 1.
To endow with the properties of an animal; to represent in animal form.
Warburton.
2.
To convert into animal matter by the processes of assimilation.
3.
To render animal or sentient; to reduce to the state of a lower animal; to sensualize.
The unconscious irony of the Epicurean poet on the
animalizing
tendency of his own philosophy. Coleridge.
Webster 1828 Edition
Animalize
AN'IMALIZE
,Verb.
T.
1.
To give animal life to; to endow with the properties of animals.2.
To convert into animal matter.Definition 2024
animalize
animalize
English
Alternative forms
- animalise (non-Oxford British spelling)
Verb
animalize (third-person singular simple present animalizes, present participle animalizing, simple past and past participle animalized)
- To represent in the form of an animal.
- To brutalize.
- To convert or produce material rich in animal substance.
- 1805, Charles Hall, The Effects of Civilisation on the People in European States, Section III:
- The weaknesses or disorder of the bowels seem chiefly to be occasioned by the poor, watery, meagre, vegetable diet of the children and of their mothers. The latter, from the use of this diet, have their milk poor, and not sufficiently animalised.
- 1805, Charles Hall, The Effects of Civilisation on the People in European States, Section III:
Translations
represent in the form of an animal
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brutalize — see brutalize