animallyadv.

1535 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (rev. ed.) iv. vi. f. xxviii/1 To restore in the body what is lost by rennynge and changynge.., the presence of the foure humours, is necessary, that the body animally by their meanes may be kept safe.

1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 422 Those that are strangled do not breath because they cannot Animally; the nerues and muscles being intercepted with the rope.

1738 J. Ilive Orat. Trinity-Hall 29 It would in the nature of things, be an absolute absurdity to suppose, that the animal part of us will be again restored to life, and animally..be punished to eternity.

1825 J. M. Sherer Scenes & Impressions Egypt & Italy (ed. 2) 296 The mere animally brave man awed and impotent.

1842 ‘J. Cypress, Jr.’ Sporting Scenes II. 126 So shall we meet, in spirit, animally magnetised.

1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt III. xxxv. 10 A nature more subtly mixed..less animally forcible.

1914 F. M. Ford Between St. Dennis & St. George ii. ii. 53 Blood would be shed by the animally splendid persons in blue and silver.

1999 H. Adams Many Pretty Toys 57 We are not yet ready to..fill ourselves with milkshakes and hamburgers, having eaten recently enough to be animally content.

c1600 Timon (1980) v. iv. 79 He'es an asse logically, & Capitally, not Phisikcallie & animallie.

1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 582 Πάντα ψυχικῶς, All things Animally; that is, Self-movably, Actively and Productively.

1708 H. Dodwell Script. Acct. Eternal Rewards or Punishments 58 [He] who was already alive Animally, because he is supposed to have a Soul; yet not alive with that Life which made him a Living Soul.

1788 T. Taylor tr. Proclus Philos. & Math. Comm. I. i. vi. 58 Soul is a certain subordinate intellect, revolving round an intellect prior to herself... If then, this superior intellect is all things intellectually, soul will [be] all things animally.

1755 P. Hiffernan Misc. 77 The first half of those gentlemens days is spent to get themselves sober, in order to capaciate them to get themselves drunk the other half... This is not living; no, it is scarce animally existing.

1886 A. C. Swinburne Misc. 377 It is not a jot less impossible that an innocent woman who was not animally idiotic or angelically ignorant,..could have borne herself as did Mary after the murder.

1934 F. S. Fitzgerald Tender is Night xix. 105 She was frowning, thinking of her children, less gloating over them than merely animally counting them—a cat checking her cubs with a paw.

1982 ‘A. T. Ellis’ 27th Kingdom ii. 32 She had planted a little magnolia, for which she cared as though it were animally sentient.

2004 Weekly Standard 5–12 July 13/1 Crying almost animally, ‘I want him to be alive..and I can't make him alive.’