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Definition of Animate thing
1. Noun. A living (or once living) entity.
Generic synonyms: Unit, Whole
Specialized synonyms: Being, Organism, Life, Biont, Cell
Examples of category: Viability, Immature, Young
Lexicographical Neighbors of Animate Thing
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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