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animalize

[an-uh-muh-lahyz] / ˈæn ə məˌlaɪz /


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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

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 Fayette Robinson

It appears to me probable that the strong tendency which the valves in this species have to disintegrate, is connected with the unusual quantity of animalized tissue contained by them.

From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin

The blood is not either highly arterialized or animalized.

From Beauty Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classificatin of Beauty in Woman by Alexander Walker

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

“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




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