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unˈanimated, ppl. a.
[un-1 8. Cf. prec.]
1. Not animated or endowed with life.
1697Dryden æneis Ded., Ess. (ed. Ker) II. 231 Part of them kindled into life, and part a lump of unformed unanimated mud. 1799Corry Sat. Lond. (1803) 60 How infinitely superior are those animated originals of feminine perfection,..when compared with the unanimated beauties of even the Venus de Medici. 1834W. Godwin Lives Necromancers 144 The ghost of the dead man stood erect before her, trembling at the view of his own unanimated limbs.
2. Dull, inanimate; not enlivened.
1734Prompter 19 Nov. 2/1 The empty, unanimated Briskness of a Fop, a Fool, or a Courtier. 1779Johnson L.P., Thomson Wks. IV. 172 Of a dull countenance, and a gross, unanimated, uninviting appearance. 1815Scott Paul's Lett. (1839) 193 The total absence of cattle from the fields, gives a dull and unanimated air to a French land⁓scape. 1816― Old Mort. xviii, A square face, and a set of stupid and unanimated features.
3. Not inspired or actuated by something.
1856R. A. Vaughan Mystics (1860) I. iii. iii. 70 The understanding had been over-tasked—set to work unanimated and unaided by the conscience and the heart. |