animalize
Americanverb (used with object)
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to excite the animal passions of; brutalize; sensualize.
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Fine Arts. to represent in animal form or endow with animal features.
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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 Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'
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
From all this they deduced a lofty theory which embraces all mankind, and all that portion of creation which may be animalized.
From The Physiology of Taste by Robinson, Fayette
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 Robinson, Fayette
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 Allston, Washington
Many were too far gone to imitate anything but their own animalized selves.
From The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 by Clappe, Louise Amelia Knapp Smith
“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 Webster, Noah
The unconscious irony of the Epicurean poet on the animalizing tendency of his own philosophy.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah
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