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▪ I. † disˈanimate, a. Obs. rare.
[f. dis- 10 + animate a.]
Deprived of life; inanimate.
1681P. Rycaut Critick 228 They saw..many disanimate Bodies.
▪ II. disanimate, v.|dɪsˈænɪmeɪt|
[f. dis- 6 + animate v., prob. after F. désanimer (15–16th c. in Godef. Suppl.).]
1. trans. To deprive of life, render lifeless.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iv. vii. 196 In carcasses warme and bodies newly disanimated. 1678Cudworth Intell Syst. 38 That Soul and Life that is now fled and gone, from a lifeless Carcase, is only a loss to that particular Body or Compages of Matter, which by means thereof is now disanimated. 1833[see disanimated below].
2. To deprive of spirit, courage, or vigour; to discourage, dispirit, dishearten.
1583Stubbes Anat. Abus. ii. (1882) 39 [They] also rather animate, than disanimate them to perseuere in their wickednes. 1591Shakes. 1 Hen. VI, iii. i. 183. 1638 Sir T. Herbert Trav. (ed. 2) 183 Yet the sublime height did not disanimate us. 1702C. Mather Magn. Chr. vii. App. (1852) 604 The garrisons were so disanimated at these disasters. 1791–1814 [see disanimating below].
Hence disˈanimated ppl. a.; disˈanimating vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1624Capt. Smith Virginia iii. xii. 94 After the expence of fifteene yeares more..grow they disanimated. 1677Ld. Orrery Art of War 199 May it not be a greater Disanimating of the Soldiery? 1791E. Darwin Bot. Gard. i. 87 To..stay Despair's disanimating sigh. 1814Southey Roderick xviii. 83 From whence disanimating fear had driven The former primate. 1833Lamb Elia Ser. ii. Product. Mod. Art, [The Dryad] linked to her own con-natural tree, co-twisting with its limbs her own till both seemed either—these animated branches; those disanimated members. |