semi-animateadj.
Half-alive. Also figurative.
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the world > life > source or principle of life > [adjective] > half alive
semivif1377
semi-animate1815
semianimous1825
semi-animated1886
1815 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1818) I. 58 Should your greenhouse be infested with Aphides, or your grapery by the Semianimate Coccus.
1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 27 May 1/1 There are Bills before Parliament... They will remain in their present semi-animate condition.
1908 Saintsbury in Cambr. Hist. Eng. Lit. II. 209 The semi-animate condition of the final -e.
Derivatives
semi-ˈanimated adj.
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the world > life > source or principle of life > [adjective] > half alive
semivif1377
semi-animate1815
semianimous1825
semi-animated1886
1886 P. Robinson Valley Teetotum Trees 96 A cloudy day [will] tempt them out for a semi-animated inspection of the world.
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