animalizedadj.
/ˈanᵻməlʌɪzd/, /ˈanᵻml̩ʌɪzd/, U.S. /ˈænəməˌlaɪzd/ 1. Of nutrients or other material: having been converted into animal matter. Cf. animalize v. 3. Now rare.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > formation of substances, etc. > [adjective]
animalized1748
secreting1807
epigenetic1830
elaborative1845
albuminiferous1850
albuminiparous1852
lymphogenous1889
chemosynthetic1898
lymphopoietic1915
biosynthetic1917
biogenetic1930
steroidogenic1951
1748 R. Davies Ess. Pestilential Contagion ii. 55 Their Salts are not exalted into such an alkaline or highly animalized nature as the Human Blood is raised into by Animal Food.
1784 J. Twamley Dairying Exemplified 93 Milk..yields a nourishment partly vegetable and partly animalized.
1806 Communic. Board Agric. V. i. viii. 184 Spring wheat contains a larger proportion of the gluten or half animalised matter.
1836 New Monthly Mag. July 389 A new manure, under the name of ‘animalized carbon’, has taken the field.
1922 Eclectic Med. Jrnl. 82 242 Calcarea carbonica... It is, as one has said, an animalized form of carbonate of lime, prepared from oyster shell.
1981 E. T. Carlson et al. Benjamin Rush's Lect. on Mind 89 God..thus changed a dead mass of animalized matter into an animated being.
2. Reduced to the level or nature of an animal; sensualized.
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the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > sensuality > [adjective] > animal nature in man
beastlyc1225
beastisha1398
bestiala1398
beast-like1526
brutala1533
brutish1567
animal1581
doggish1594
belluine1618
ferine1640
animalizing1825
animalized1827
1827 W. P. Scargill Blue-stocking Hall I. 86 A sleepy animalized existence at home, or a perpetual search after excitement abroad, succeeds.
a1853 F. W. Robertson Serm. (1855) 1st Ser. xiii. 221 The soul of the Roman..became secularized, then animalized.
1858 H. Bushnell Nature & Supernatural viii. 227 The low, decrepid, animalized condition which we now designate by the term savage.
1927 J. F. Clarke in F. G. Peabody Reminisc. Present-day Saints iii. 41 Many of them..become selfindulgent, irresponsible, or animalized.
1955 J. Mayne tr. C. Baudelaire Mirror of Art 164 Every vice of the heart can be clearly seen and read in these animalized faces.
2001 Feminist Stud. (Nexis) Summer 271 In this defeminized, animalized, and exoticized state, Herlanders are implicitly associated with period stereotypes of so-called savages.
3. Having the attributes or appearance of an animal.
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the world > animals > [adjective] > having the form of an animal
animalized1835
zoomorphic1872
theriomorph1969
1835 W. Kirby On Power of God in Creation of Animals I. v. 181 Seemingly insignificant creatures..which seem as little animalized as any animal can be.
1879 M. D. Conway Demonol. I. iii. viii. 380 The animalised form of the Hydra [of Lernæa].
1974 G. R. Willey in C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky & J. A. Sabloff Rise & Fall of Civilizations ii. 158 Fully animalized jaguars, bird and duck monsters, serpents, and fish.
1992 F. Lissarrague in P. S. Pantel Hist. Women i. iv. 223 The satyr, who is animalized in his very anatomy.
4. Of plant fibre: that has been treated to improve its receptivity to dyes. Cf. animalize v. 4. Now historical.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > treating or processing textile fabric > [adjective]
gassed1818
animalized1867
Schreiner1904
tie-dye1926
pad-steam1945
1867 R. Hunt Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 6) II. 402 Archil prepared by the usual methods..has the defect..of easily deteriorating in colour when applied to silk, wool, or animalized cotton.
1882 J. W. Slater Man. Colours & Dye Wares 19 In printing, the aniline blues are successfully produced upon animalized cotton tissues.
1910 W. P. Dreaper in W. A. Davis & S. S. Sadtler Allen's Comm. Org. Anal. (ed. 4) V. 96 The animalised cotton is prepared in the following manner.
1990 Technol. & Culture 31 78 The solution lay in finding a satisfactory ‘animalized’ coating for cotton that would adhere to both fiber and dye in the dyed areas.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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