Definition of Animize

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

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

Lexicographical Neighbors of Animize

anime
animes
animesque
animeverse
animeverses
animi
animis
animise
animism
animisms
animist
animistic
animistically
animists
animize (current term)
animose
animoseness
animosities
animosity
animus
animuses
animés
aningre
anion
anion exchange
anion exchange resin
anion exchanger
anion gap
anionic

Literary usage of Animize

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

1. An Introduction to the History of History by James Thomson Shotwell (1922)
"The explanation of this lies in the tendency of the savage to "animize" his world. Dawn and clouds, fire, running water, dark caves or groves, animals, ..."

2. Christianity and Mythology by John Mackinnon Robertson (1900)
"... probably does not animize the wind and the rain, unless they" should become violent,2 or the river, the light, and the darkness ; and it may l>e that ..."

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