Definition of Animate thing

1. Noun. A living (or once living) entity.

Exact synonyms: Living Thing
Generic synonyms: Unit, Whole
Specialized synonyms: Being, Organism, Life, Biont, Cell
Examples of category: Viability, Immature, Young

Lexicographical Neighbors of Animate Thing

animalizations
animalize
animalized
animalizes
animalizing
animallike
animally
animalness
animals
animanga
animas
animastic
animat
animate
animate being
animate thing (current term)
animated
animated cartoon
animated cartoons
animated oat
animatedly
animately
animateness
animatenesses
animater
animaters
animates
animatic
animatics
animating

Literary usage of Animate thing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents: Travels and Explorations of the by Reuben Gold Thwaites, Jesuits (1897)
"... but, if it be an animate thing, the verb must again be changed, for example, ... if it is an animate thing that belongs to some one, I must say, ..."

2. About Dante and His "beloved Florence" by Frances Bush Fenton Sanborn (1901)
"In this same poet the inanimate thing speaks to the animate thing. In Lucan the animate thing speaks to the inanimate thing. In Homer, a man speaks to his ..."

3. The Ante-Nicene Fathers: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers Down to by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, Arthur Cleveland Coxe, Ernest Cushing Richardson, Allan Menzies, Bernhard Pick (1903)
"That, therefore, which produces a result, cannot itself be the result, so as to be entitled to the designation of an animate thing or an inanimate one. ..."

4. Ante-Nicene Christian Library: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers by James Donaldson, Alexander Roberts, Novatianus, Allan Menzies (1870)
"That, therefore, which produces a result, cannot itself be the result, so as to be entitled to the designation of an animate thing or an inanimate one. ..."

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