animatelyadv.
/ˈanᵻmətli/, U.S. /ˈænəmətli/ In an animate or animated manner; with life or animation.
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1822 D. Stewart Sketches Highlanders Scotl. I. ii. v. 221 In action, the Highlander requires to see his object fully: he then feels the impression of his duty, and acts animately and consistently, more from impression and sentiment than from external impulse of command.
1904 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 25 335 To them, all is animate or animately endowed.
1967 Times 1 Sept. 6 Mozart's youthful G minor symphony was neatly and quite animately played.
1998 N. Baldwin Legends of Plumed Serpent xii. 87 The holistic belief that every thing, every phenomenon on earth was animately fused on a continuum with every other thing.
2006 San Francisco Chron. (Nexis) 14 July b10 The driver is animately engaged in conversation.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2022).
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