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▪ I. reˈanimate, a. rare.
[Cf. next and animate a.]
Reanimated, revived, etc.
1810Southey Kehama xiv. x, With other life re-animate, She saw the dead arise. 1885in Schaff & Gilman Libr. Relig. Poetry 567, I would..with reanimate and quickened step..go on my way.
▪ II. reanimate, v.|riːˈænɪmeɪt|
[f. re- 5 a + animate v., prob. after med.L. reanimāre or F. réanimer, († r'animer) ranimer (16th c.).]
1. trans. To animate with new life, to make alive again, to restore to life or consciousness. Also fig.
1611Cotgr., Ranimer, to reanimate, reincourage, reuiue [etc.]. 1714Spect. No. 578 ⁋8 The Power of re-animating a dead Body, by flinging my own Soul into it. 1786tr. Beckford's Vathek (1868) 14 The wakeful lark hailed the rising light that reanimates the whole creation. 1812Byron Ch. Har. i. xliv, Fame that will scare re-animate their clay. 1865Dickens Mut. Fr. iii. iii, Doctor examines the dank carcase, and pronounces..that it is worth while trying to reanimate the same. 1886Ruskin Præterita I. 271 Byron..reanimated for me the real people whose feet had worn the marble I trod on.
2. a. To give fresh heart or courage to (a person); to stimulate anew. Also const. with.
1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), To Re-animate,..to put in heart again. 1792Anecd. W. Pitt II. xxiii. 57 His late Majesty could not re-animate the Dutch with the love of liberty. 1870Disraeli Lothair xxxii, Your presence always reanimates me.
b. To impart fresh vigour, energy, or activity to (a thing).
1762Foote Orators i. Wks. 1799 I. 204 He reanimates their slackened nerves with the mystic picture of an apple-tree. 1785Burke Wks. (1826) IV. 267 To reanimate the powers of the unproductive parts. 1823De Quincey Dice Wks. 1862 X. 314 The picture..called up and re-animated in his memory..all his honourable plans. 1872Yeats Growth Comm. 250 He reanimated the textile manufactures.
3. intr. To recover life or spirit.
1645Symonds Diary (Camden) 244 All ours re-animated, and expected to follow Pointz to the North. 1782F. Burney Cecilia ix. v, ‘There spoke Miss Beverley!’ cried Delvile, re-animating at this little apology. 1796Jane Austen Sense & Sens. xvii, His affections seemed to re⁓animate towards them all. 1841J. Curtis in Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. II. ii. 207 They reanimate as they are dried by the sun.
Hence reˈanimated, -ˈanimating, ppl. adjs.
1661Glanvill Van. Dogm. 138 We are our re-animated Ancestours and antedate their Resurrection. 1746Hervey Medit. (1818) 157 The resurrection of the just, and the state of their re-animated bodies! 1817J. Snart (title) Thesaurus of Horror, or the Charnel-House Explored, showing the re⁓animating power of earth in cases of Syncope. 1871Smiles Charac. iii. (1876) 84 Gazing on them with reanimated eye. |