† animantn.adj.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin animant-, animāns.

Etymology: As noun < classical Latin animant-, animāns living creature, animal, use as noun of animant-, animāns, adjective; as adjective < classical Latin animant-, animāns having life, living, use as adjective of present participle of animāre animate v. Compare French animant , adjective (1655). Compare animantative adj.

Obsolete.

A. n.

A living creature; an animal.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > [noun]

neteneOE

wightc888

deerc950

beastc1225

jument1382

creaturea1387

animala1398

bestialc1400

bullifanta1528

bovya1549

animant1599

man or beast1600

breather1609

fellow creature1726

fig-fauns1750

critter1815

fellow1816

demon1821

skelm1827

1599 A. Hume Hymnes sig. C2 Our euerie litil creiping thing, or vther animant, That in the sea, the fire, or air, or on the earth dois haunt.

1677 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. IV iv. 447 There is no other cause of life to us men and other Animants.

1730 T. Fuller Exanthematologia i. 85 Yet Worms, Moles, and the Subterranean Animants, may be so framed by Nature, as to breathe best in such an Air.

B. adj.

That has life; living, animated.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > source or principle of life > [adjective] > opposed to inanimate

quickeOE

livelyOE

animatea1398

quick and queathing?a1475

vitala1513

animated1568

animal1599

animant1678

inanimated1689

vivified1767

animastic1794

vitalic1848

1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 512 He that acknowledges no Animant God..acknowledges no God at all.

1706 R. Brocklesby Explic. Gospel-theism ii. ix. 152/2 Democritus and Epicurus..do neither acknowledge the World to be Animant, nor to be govern'd by Providence, but by an irrational Nature.

1807 S. T. Coleridge Notebks. (1962) II. 2999 Shall I try to image it to myself, as an animant self-conscious pendulum, continuing for ever its arc of motion by the for ever anticipation of it?

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

单词	animant
释义	† animantn.adj. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin animant-, animāns. Etymology: As noun < classical Latin animant-, animāns living creature, animal, use as noun of animant-, animāns, adjective; as adjective < classical Latin animant-, animāns having life, living, use as adjective of present participle of animāre animate v. Compare French animant , adjective (1655). Compare animantative adj. Obsolete. A. n. A living creature; an animal. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > [noun] neteneOE wightc888 deerc950 beastc1225 jument1382 creaturea1387 animala1398 bestialc1400 bullifanta1528 bovya1549 animant1599 man or beast1600 breather1609 fellow creature1726 fig-fauns1750 critter1815 fellow1816 demon1821 skelm1827 1599 A. Hume Hymnes sig. C2 Our euerie litil creiping thing, or vther animant, That in the sea, the fire, or air, or on the earth dois haunt. 1677 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. IV iv. 447 There is no other cause of life to us men and other Animants. 1730 T. Fuller Exanthematologia i. 85 Yet Worms, Moles, and the Subterranean Animants, may be so framed by Nature, as to breathe best in such an Air. B. adj. That has life; living, animated. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > [adjective] > opposed to inanimate quickeOE livelyOE animatea1398 quick and queathing?a1475 vitala1513 animated1568 animal1599 animant1678 inanimated1689 vivified1767 animastic1794 vitalic1848 1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 512 He that acknowledges no Animant God..acknowledges no God at all. 1706 R. Brocklesby Explic. Gospel-theism ii. ix. 152/2 Democritus and Epicurus..do neither acknowledge the World to be Animant, nor to be govern'd by Providence, but by an irrational Nature. 1807 S. T. Coleridge Notebks. (1962) II. 2999 Shall I try to image it to myself, as an animant self-conscious pendulum, continuing for ever its arc of motion by the for ever anticipation of it? This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.adj.1599
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