单词 | zoomorphizing |
释义 | zoomorphizingn. The action of attributing an animal form or nature to a person or thing. Cf. zoomorphize v. Π 1895 Academy 9 Feb. 131/3 In the zoomorphising of everything we have the raw material..of myth, custom, and belief. 1961 Amer. Scientist Dec. 534 This kind of zoomorphizing..makes a simple animal out of a man. 1992 D. M. Locke Sci. As Writing 28 Kekule's daydream was the zoomorphizing of the conventional graphical symbolizations of molecular structures. 2014 Cumberland (Maryland) Times News 7 Sept. c6/2 Zoomorphizing aside, the current notion that animals can be our teachers needs to be tempered. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1895 |
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