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Definition of Animalic
1. animal [adj] - See also: animal
Lexicographical Neighbors of Animalic
Literary usage of Animalic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Practical Treatise on the Manufacture of Starch, Glucose, Starch-sugar by Julius Frankel, Ladislaus von Wágner (1881)
"Relation of Starch to Diastase, Gluten, animalic Liquids, etc.—Exactly in the
same manner as diluted acids act, in a higher temperature, on starch, ..."
2. The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality by Rudolf Schmid (1885)
"... and he convincingly shows, in his essay on "Darwin's Doctrine," that the
embryos never represent a former animalic form, but that their development ..."
3. The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Morris Jastrow (1898)
"They are able to penetrate into the body of men, and thus produce similar physical
and mental disturbances as the animalic ..."
4. Studies in Judaism: Second Series by Solomon Schechter (1908)
"... functions as were declared by other religions as distinctly animalic, can with
the saint be elevated into moments of worship and religious exaltation. ..."
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