Definition of Animise

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

Exact synonyms: Animate, Animize
Generic synonyms: Alter, Change, Modify
Derivative terms: Animator

Lexicographical Neighbors of Animise

animato
animator
animators
animatronic
animatronically
animatronics
animats
anime
animes
animesque
animeverse
animeverses
animi
animis
animise (current term)
animism
animisms
animist
animistic
animistically
animists
animize
animose
animoseness
animosities
animosity
animus
animuses
animés

Literary usage of Animise

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

1. A Dictionary of Christian Biography, Literature, Sects and Doctrines: Being by Henry Wace (1880)
"Ingenuity and special pleading may, indeed, animise and attenuate the identity of these pre- "pti and practice, but the great aim of Essenism i" attain to ..."

2. Revue néoscolastique by Société philosophique de Louvain (1908)
"... soit qu'il assimile la nature à la vie de l'esprit, soit qu'il animise l'univers, ..."

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