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animalize, v.|ˈænɪməlaɪz|
[f. animal + -ize.]
1. To make into an animal; to represent in animal form. rare.
1741Warburton Div. Legat. II. iv. §6. 182 The polite Egyptian Priests who first animalized the Asterisms. 1835[see animalized ppl. a. 2]. 1886[implied in animalization 4]. 1889Cent. Dict. s.v., The Egyptians animalized their deities.
2. a. To convert into animal substance.
1770Wesley Nat. Phil. v. viii. §14 (1784) IV. 190 The Hand, which has formed the polypus..can, when necessity requires, animalize matter at a much less expence. 1772Hunter in Phil. Trans. LXII. 454 Something secreted in the coats of the stomach, which..animalises the food, or assimilates it to the nature of the blood. 1805W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. III. 17 That the juice of the Indian fig may be animalized into a crimson die.
b. To convert (vegetable fibre) into a substance resembling animal fibre.
1862[see prec. 1 b]. 1869Dict. Dyeing in Eng. Mech. 28 May 229/3 It is not possible to animalise a fabric in any other way than by actually depositing upon it the animal matter. a1875Knight Dict. Mech. I. 106/2 Animalizing fiber, the process of conferring upon vegetable fiber the physical characteristics of animal fiber.
3. To reduce to animal nature; to sensualize, rouse the sensual passions of.
1806–31A. Knox Rem. (1844) I. 81 Nine out of ten are too much animalised for this. 1841Arnold Lect. Mod. Hist. (1878) 55 Has sensualized and animalized its character. 1842Blackw. Mag. LI. 297 A bright-eyed poissarde well able to animalize a monastery. |