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Definition of Animalistic
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to animalism.
Definition of Animalistic
1. Adjective. In the manner of an animal; savage; untamed. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Animalistic
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Animalistic
Literary usage of Animalistic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Jehovah Himself Has Become Kingby Robert King by Robert King (2005)
"powerful angels will debar animalistic people from entering the Highway of Holiness
that Jehovah's redeemed ones will travel on to the New World. ..."
2. Man: Whence and Whither? by Alcinous Burton Jamison (1922)
"Since spirit has so recently emerged from the lower conscious planes of incarnated
beings, spirit-man naturally retains his acquired animalistic mind-traits ..."
3. Principles of Teaching High School Pupils by Means of the High School Subjects by Hubert Wilbur Nutt (1922)
"It is the period during which the struggle between the brutish and animalistic
tendencies of human beings against the spiritual and Godlike tendencies of ..."
4. The Reaction Against Metaphysics in Theology by Douglas Clyde Macintosh (1911)
"... means of so adjusting the organism to its environment that the life may be
prolonged and propagated, then we have an animalistic variety of pragmatism. ..."
5. Christian Belief Interpreted by Christian Experience: Lectures Delivered in by Charles Cuthbert Hall (1905)
"The animalistic instincts of the human being are, in their original and unperverted
forms, normal, and consistent with the highest ethical life. ..."
6. The Barren Ideal by George Law (1914)
"That of youth was purely animalistic in an eager, vigorous acceptance of the present
... The animalistic adjustment of youth can not be preserved beyond the ..."
7. A New Natural Theology: Based Upon the Doctrine of Evolution by J. Morris (1896)
"We infer, then, with regard to animalistic defects of character, either that man
is responsible for the ... And this applies not only to the animalistic ..."
8. Political Psychos by Gyeorgos Ceres Hatonn (1994)
"He must be degraded from a spiritual being to an animalistic reaction pattern.
... only of animalistic reactions. He must no longer think of himself, ..."
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