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▪ I. exanimate, ppl. a.|ɛgz-, ɛkˈsænɪmət|
[ad. L. exanimāt-us, pa. pple. of exanimāre: see next.]
1. Deprived of life, lifeless, dead; rarely of an inorganic substance = inanimate.
1552Huloet, Exanimate or kylled, confectus. 1590Spenser F.Q. ii. xii. 7 Ships, which had been wrecked late..stuck with carcases exanimate. 1635Swan Spec. M. ix. §1 (1643) 469 Oftentimes by dust and knocks they [bears] are almost exanimate and without life. 1804J. Grahame Sabbath (1839) 23/2 The circling halo beam'd..Upon that face, clothed in a smile benign, Though yet exanimate. 1848Miller First Impr. ii. (1857) 23 It is a petrifaction—a fossil..an exanimate stone. 1858Chamb. Jrnl. IX. 338 Thither, almost exanimate from fright..was he conveyed.
b. Lifeless in appearance; without respiration.
1619R. Jones Serm. in Phenix (1708) II. 490 They were exanimate; but whether that Fit held them only by way of Syncope, or [etc.]. 1837Old Commodore I. 219 Exanimate, collapsed, the Commodore..was..lifted on board. 1849Lytton Caxtons xviii. viii, Squills again closed his eyes, and became exanimate.
2. Deprived or destitute of animation or courage; spiritless.
c1534tr. Pol. Verg. Eng. Hist. (Camden) I. 185 At whose fall the residew became so hartelesse and exanimate that..they were all slayne. 1668Wilkins Real Char. 253 Out of heart, crest-faln, exanimate. 1728Thomson Spring 1049 The grey morn Lifts her pale lustre on the paler wretch Exanimate by love. 1808J. Barlow Columb. v. 853 Pale, curbed, exanimate, in dull despair. 1841Fraser's Mag. XXV. 217 The comparatively exanimate productions of a hundred moralists.
▪ II. exanimate, v. rare in mod. use.|ɛgz-, ɛkˈsænɪmeɪt|
Also 7 exanimat.
[f. L. exanimāt- ppl. stem of exanimāre to deprive of life, f. ex- out + anima breath of life.]
†1. trans.
a. To deprive of life; to kill.
b. To deprive of the appearance of life; to render breathless or unconscious. Obs.
1593B. Barnes Parthenophil & P. Sonn. lvi, Thy love, which doth each part exanimate. 1620Venner Via Recta (1650) 225 A Charcoal-fire will quickly exanimate you and cast you into a sowne. 1657Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 24 That they might exanimate..all those whose life..they envy or hate.
c. fig. humorous. To knock the breath out of.
1878Fraser's Mag. XVII. 738 Mr. Sayce has furnished enough grammatical details, not only to ‘flutter’ the Aryans, but to exanimate most believers in a grammar at all.
†2. To deprive of courage or spirit; to dishearten, dispirit. Obs.
1552in Huloet. 1567Drant Horace' Epist. ii. i. G vj, These two doth much exanimate And strykes the hart full coulde. 1638A. Read Chirurg. ii. 14 Ustion..is horrible to the..apprehension; for it doth in a manner exanimat cowardly persons. 1667J. Flavel Saint Indeed (1754) 141 If it be attended..with suffering, it will exanimate and sink him.
1721–1800in Bailey.
Hence eˈxanimated, eˈxanimating ppl. adjs.
1689T. Plunket Char. Gd. Commander 3 But our brave Hero, whom I now describe, Is none of that exanimated Tribe. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1673) 341 The old Magicians by reason of this exanimating property, did not a little glory in these beasts. |