单词 | animality |
释义 | animalityn. 1. The state or fact of being an animal; animal nature or life; vital power. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > vital principle > [noun] souleOE lifeOE spiritusOE bloodOE ghostOE life and soulOE quickship?c1225 quicknessc1230 breatha1300 spirita1325 spark1382 naturec1385 sparkle1388 livelinessa1398 rational soula1398 spiracle1398 animal spirit?a1425 vital spiritc1450 soul of the world1525 candle1535 fire1576 three souls1587 vitality?1592 candlelight1596 substance1605 vivacity1611 animality1615 vividity1616 animals1628 life spring1649 archeus1651 vital1670 spirituosity1677 springs of life1681 microcosmetor1684 vital force1702 vital spark (also flame)1704 stamen1718 vis vitae1752 prana1785 Purusha1785 jiva1807 vital force1822 heartbeat1828 world-soul1828 world-spirit1828 life energy1838 life force1848 ghost soul1869 will to live1871 biogen1882 ki1893 mauri1897 élan vital1907 orgone1942 the world > animals > [noun] > animal nature > as opposed to vegetables animality1858 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 40 Then followeth presently a sencelesse dulnes, and a priuation of the Animality, if I may so speake. 1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. F5v It's more plain in animalitie. 1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 111 Lifesomness or animality. 1772 Ann. Reg. 1771 168/1 We find ourselves obliged to predicate animality concerning a great variety of beings which are destitute of every power of progressive motion. 1796 Monthly Rev. 20 App. 567 Empedocles..had no doubt of the animality of the earth. 1829 J. L. Knapp Jrnl. Naturalist 241 That portion of vital air which brisks up animality. 1840 Blackwood's Mag. 48 490 The luxuriant fulness of blooming animality. 1858 T. R. Jones Aquarian Naturalist 137 Jussieu..at last declared his complete faith in the animality of these creatures [sc. the Zoophytic races]. 1968 Philos. Sci. 35 17 In their sensibility, he supposed, the fibers possess an intrinsic animality that both causes and coördinates their vital vibrations. 2006 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 361 998/2 All feasible animal bilateral body plans would inevitably be tried out..by minor developmental modifications to basic animality. 2. The qualities and characteristics of an animal as opposed to distinctively human qualities; (in humans) physical, instinctive behaviour or character. Contrasted with humanity. ΘΚΠ the world > people > [noun] > animal nature in man sensualityc1405 animality1616 animala1728 animalness1730 the world > animals > [noun] > animal nature > mere animality animality1616 1616 H. Ainsworth Annot. First Bk. Moses, called Genesis sig. B4/2 By living soul, here is meant, the naturall estate of life in this world, where men doe eat and drink, procreate children &c; which in the world to come, shalbe otherwise, when this animalitie, or souly state, shalbe changed into spiritualtie. 1653 H. More Conjectura Cabbalistica 53 Every man..hath these two Principles in him..Divinity and Animality, Spirit and Flesh. 1668 H. More Two Last Dialogues iv. iv. 10 To gratifie our corrupt Animality. 1726 T. Ecclestone Way to Happiness xxxiii. 293 This animality then, or this corrupt Propension to love and live according to the Dictates of Flesh and Blood, must be first purged away as much as possible. 1789 Life & Adventures Anthony Leger I. xvii. 164 Too stupid to have many vices to correct, and no virtues to cultivate, he had led the life of common animality. 1836 Foreign Q. Rev. 17 166 In woman, humanity, as contradistinguished to animality..has attained its zenith. 1878 E. Dowden Stud. Lit. 114 The development of the entire human race from animality and primitive barbarism. 1999 A. MacIntyre Dependent Rational Animals (2002) i. 5 The belief that our rationality as thinking beings is somehow independent of our animality. 2005 T. Sadler tr. M. Heidegger Essence of Human Freedom xxvi. 182 It is thus animality which characterizes man as a living being... It is..humanity that characterizes man as both a living and a rational being. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > [noun] > animal kingdom animal kingdom1650 animal world1665 animated nature1692 animality1766 animal series1831 brute-kind1880 1766 tr. C. Bonnet Contempl. Nature I. viii. xvi. 193 It [sc. the polypus] is, if we may be allowed the expression, too much an animal, to be the last term of animality [Fr. le dernier terme d'Animalité]. 1794 G. Adams Lect. Nat. & Exper. Philos. I. ix. 413 Without it [sc. fire] there would be neither vegetation, nor animality. 1841 Douglas in Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 1 ix. 245 In any class or kingdom of animality. 1869 Eng. Mech. 11 June 262/1 Animality has no principle of cohesion by its members. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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