animatedadj.

1568 W. Fulwood Enimie Idlenesse iv. f. 133^v Loue..aboue all animated creatures, holdeth in his domination my inflamed mynd.

1678 J. Shirley Short Compend. Chirurgery i. 35 Native Heat is a proper and special quality to all animated creatures, whereby they live and exercise their functions, uses, and necessary operations.

1735 B. Langrish Mod. Theory & Pract. Physic iii. 126 An animated human Body is not a mere Statue,..but an admirably framed engine, consisting of solid, liquid, and pneumatic Substances.

1807 T. Young Course Lect. Nat. Philos. I. lix. 737 The vermes are the last and lowest of animated beings, yet some of them are not deficient either in magnitude or in beauty.

1826 Lancet 21 Jan. 574/2 ‘Vital air’ was necessary to the existence of every animated creature.

1901 J. J. M. de Groot Relig. Syst. China IV. ii. i. i. 4 The shen manifests itself in its full development in man by his khi or ‘breath’; indeed, only animated man lives and breathes.

1964 Amer. Anthropologist 66 720 It is already old hat in good medical schools to allow a view of the patient as an animated cadaver, a skinful of organs perambulating around.

2005 New Yorker 7 Mar. 83/1 She's a little like the image her name calls up—a jolly, plump, animated snowwoman.

1684 tr. F. Hédelin d'Aubignac Whole Art of Stage ii. ii. 77 How Probability is to be preserved in all the strokes of this animated Picture.

1691 J. Dunton Voy. round World III. x. 379 Lovers with more Eloquence communicate Sighs than Words..and like Doves of Venus mourn forth animated Letters.

1715 A. Pope Temple of Fame 12 Heroes in animated Marble frown, And Legislators seem to think in Stone.

1720 A. Hill Creation p. xiii These animated Images, or pictured Meanings of Poetry, are the forcible Inspirers, which enflame a Reader's Will.

1781 J. Moore View Society & Manners Italy II. xl. 60 Your admiration is fixed by the animated equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius.

1813 Theatr. Inquisitor 2 184 Correct and animated pictures of existing manners..are always gratifying.

1827 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey IV. vi. vi. 200 Mine are all animated pictures. See that cypress, waving from the gentle breeze.

1930 I. Narodny Amer. Artists ii. 20 His pictures..are animated images of nature in the artist's soul.

1990 K. Jeter in R. S. Hanks & M. B. Sussman Corporations, Businesses & Families 231 The statues are animated representations of the King.

1763 S. Johnson Let. in J. Boswell Life (1799) 547 Utrecht seeming at first very dull to me, after the animated scenes of London.

1796 M. Wollstonecraft Lett. Sweden, Norway & Denmark xxii. 242 A walk, under the shade of lofty trees, led to a regularly built, and animated town.

1827 J. Montgomery Pelican Island ii. 106 The expanse of animated waters.

1864 L. M. Alcott Moods ix. 132 Finding a cool corner Sylvia watched the animated scene before her.

1923 National Geographic Mag. Jan. 41/1 Wash-day in the Sardinian mountains presents an animated scene with rows of peasant women in bright costumes.

1995 Holiday Which? Mar. 115/1 It's an animated place, with a lively main square backed by tapas bars.

1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke ii. iv. sig. Q2^v (heading) Gold animated, is the chiefe subiect of the metallic Medicine of the Philosophers.

1644 K. Digby Two Treat. i. xxxvi. 311 His foe sitteth still, and draweth him to him: which he doth in such sort, as animated Mercury will draw leafe gold duely prepared, or as the loadestone attracteth iron.

1659 J. H. tr. Paracelsus his Aurora & Treasure of Philosophers xvi. 47 As often as a corporal Salt is throughly mixt with a spiritual Mercury and Animated Sulphur into one body, then doth nature begin to work..by a separating fire, by which the gross and impure Sulphur is separated from the pure.

1775 tr. Valuable Secrets Arts & Trades v. 70 Throw it in four ounces of granulated silver in fusion, and previously amalgamated with sixteen ounces of purified and animated mercury.

1868 Putnam's Mag. June 681/2 They heated and cooled, digested and distilled, analyzed and amalgamated the unlucky metal, in order to find the animated mercury, as they called the future substance, which was to make the philosopher's stone.

1912 E. Atkinson Greyfriars Bobby ii. 33 A streak of dark silver, as of animated mercury, Bobby flashed past.

2000 L. M. Principe in F. L. Holmes & T. H. Levere Instruments & Exper. Hist. Chem. iii. 68 After a fairly lengthy process involving various materials and numerous distillations, I obtained an ‘animated’ Mercury, which was supposedly the necessary ‘mineral water’ that mercurialists required for the ‘moistening of the seed of gold’.

1654 W. Charleton Physiologia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charltoniana xvi. 406 We observe the Animated Needle of a Mariners Compass, freely converting it self round, upon the pin, whereon it is æquilibrated.

1764 A. Reid tr. P. J. Macquer Elements Theory & Pract. Chym. (ed. 2) I. xvi. 153 The powder thus roasted being touched with a magnet, or an animated bar, if it contains particles of iron they will infallibly adhere to the magnet or bar.

1788 G. S. Howard New Royal Cyclopædia, & Encycl. I. iv. 124/2 Animated needle, one touched with a load-stone.

1888 U.S. Patent 376,247 1 Be it known that I, Augustin Le Prince,..have invented certain new and useful Improvements in the Method of and Apparatus for Producing Animated Pictures of Natural Scenery.

1903 Westm. Gaz. 28 Aug. 8/2 The America Cup race will be shown by animated pictures.

1919 A. C. Lescarboura Behind Motion-picture Screen vii. 131 Raw film enters the studio and is subsequently converted into animated film which brings the work of many players to theatres far and wide.

1935 R. Macaulay Personal Pleasures 135 There is a news reel on;..troops walk past with that jerky gait peculiar to animated photography.

1996 Film Hist. 8 450/1 The novelty of ‘animated photographs’ was readily appreciated for attracting audiences to meetings.

1913 Mansfield (Ohio) News 2 Apr. 11/7 (advt.) The Newlyweds. Eclair. The only animated cartoon in existence.

1960 Times 11 Feb. 3/4 Up to about 1950 the animated film all over the world was dominated by the influence of Disney.

1964 Film Q. Winter 34/1 There were the usual animated shorts, some quite deftly drawn.

1972 L. D. Giannetti Understanding Movies 73 Mattes are used to block out certain areas of the real scene where the animated drawings will appear in the finished print.

2002 Premiere Apr. 88/3 Best Animated Picture... It's only the first year for this category..and the competition is already fierce.

2007 Junior Educ. June (Literacy & Numeracy Update) 12/1 Each interactive CD-ROM features an animated and read-along story.