ANIMALIZE

v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

To endow with the properties of an animal; to represent in animal form. Warburton.

2.
v.

To convert into animal matter by the processes of assimilation.

3.
v.

To render animal or sentient; to reduce to the state of a lower animal; to sensualize. The unconscious irony of the Epicurean poet on the animalizing tendency of his own philosophy. Coleridge.