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
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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
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 A. S. (Alpheus Spring) Packard
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
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
“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