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Definition of Animate

1. Adjective. Belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings. "The word `dog' is animate"

2. Verb. Heighten or intensify. "The performance is likely to animate Sue"; "These paintings exalt the imagination"

3. Adjective. Endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life. "We are animate beings"

4. Verb. Give lifelike qualities to. "Animated cartoons"

5. Adjective. Endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness. "The living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage"

6. Verb. Make lively. "The performance is likely to animate Sue"; "Let's liven up this room a bit"

7. Verb. Give new life or energy to. "This treatment repaired my health"

Definition of Animate

1. v. t. To give natural life to; to make alive; to quicken; as, the soul animates the body.

2. a. Endowed with life; alive; living; animated; lively.

Definition of Animate

1. Adjective. That which lives. ¹

2. Adjective. Possessing the quality or ability of motion. ¹

3. Adjective. Dynamic, energetic. ¹

4. Adjective. (context: grammar of a noun or pronoun) Having a referent that includes a human or animal. ¹

5. Adjective. (context: grammar) Inflected to agree with an animate noun or pronoun. ¹

6. Verb. (transitive) To impart motion or the appearance of motion to. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Animate

1. to give life to [v -MATED, -MATING, -MATES]

Medical Definition of Animate

1. 1. To give natural life to; to make alive; to quicken; as, the soul animates the body. 2. To give powers to, or to heighten the powers or effect of; as, to animate a lyre. 3. To give spirit or vigor to; to stimulate or incite; to inspirit; to rouse; to enliven. "The more to animate the people, he stood on high . . . And cried unto them with a loud voice." (Knolles) Synonym: To enliven, inspirit, stimulate, exhilarate, inspire, instigate, rouse, urge, cheer, prompt, incite, quicken, gladden. Origin: L. Animatus, p. P. Of animare, fr. Anima breath, soul; akin to animus soul, mind, Gr. Wind, Skr. An to breathe, live, Goth. Us-anan to expire (us- out), Icel. Ond breath, anda to breathe, OHG. Ando anger. Cf. Animal. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Animate

animality animalization animalizations animalize animalized animalizes animalizing animallike animally animalness

animals animanga animas animastic animat animate (current term) animate being animate thing animated animated cartoon

animated cartoons animated oat animatedly animately animateness animatenesses animater animaters animates animatic

Literary usage of Animate

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

1. Native Writings in Massachusett by Ives Goddard, Kathleen Joan Bragdon (1988)
"Inanimate plural participles are marked with |-eh| instead of |-ish| in at least some forms with third-person-possessed subjects or animate third person ..."

2. Introduction to Infectious and Parasitic Diseases: Including Their Cause and by Millard Langfeld (1907)
"The fourth group into which we divide animate the agents of disease is the animate ... animate agents comprise two classes, parasites and infectious agents, ..."

3. An Epitome of the Synthetic Philosophy by Frederick Howard Collins, Herbert Spencer (1889)
"THE IDEAS OF THE animate AND THE INanimate. 60. To understand the nature of the conceived distinction between the living and the not-living in the mind of ..."

4. The Elements of Political Economy by Francis Wayland (1837)
"The ADVANTAGES of inanimate over animate natural agents, are several. 1. Inanimate agents can, within a small compass, and with comparatively little weight, ..."

5. Traditional Ojibwa Religion and Its Historical Changes by Christopher Vecsey (1983)
"An animate Universe The dual souls, then, possessed dual religious functions. ... The Ojibwas believed that manitos, as well as all animate beings including ..."

6. Traditional Ojibwa Religion and Its Historical Changes by Christopher T. Vecsey (1983)
"An animate Universe The dual souls, then, possessed dual religious functions. ... The Ojibwas believed that manitos, as well as all animate beings including ..."

7. Principles of Geology: Or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and Its by Charles Lyell (1840)
"... AND OF SUDDEN REVOLUTIONS IN THE animate WORLD, CONTROVERTED. Observed facts in which this doctrine has originated — These may be equally explained by ..."

8. A Treatise on the Law of Bailments: Including Carriers, Innkeepers, and Pledge by James Schouler (1887)
"Whether the action of animate nature to the injury of goods may ever excuse a ... It appears to this writer that unforeseen injury caused by animate nature ..."

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