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

Endowed with life; full of life or spirit; indicating animation; lively; vigorous. "Animated sounds." Pope. "Animated bust." Gray. "Animated descriptions." Lewis.

With animation.

One who animates. De Quincey.

Causing animation; life-giving; inspiriting; rousing. "Animating cries." Pope. -- An"i*ma`ting*ly, adv.

The act of animating, or giving life or spirit; the state of being animate or alive. The animation of the same soul quickening the whole frame. Bp. Hall. Perhaps an inanimate thing supplies me, while I am speaking, with whatever I posses of animation. Landor.

Having the power of giving life or spirit. Johnson.

One who, or that which, animates; an animater. Sir T. Browne.

Opposing, or fitted to relieve, asthma. -- n.

Of or pertaining to the last syllable but two. -- n.

Same as Antasthmatic.

Antistrumous. -- n.

Pertaining to aphorisms, or having the form of an aphorism.

Devoid of air; free from air; as, an apneumatic lung; also, effected by or with exclusion of air; as, an apneumatic operation.

Free from chromatic and spherical aberration; -- said esp. of a lens in which rays of three or more colors are brought to the same focus, the degree of achromatism thus obtained being more complete than where two rays only are thus focused, as in the ordinary achromatic objective. --Ap`o*chro"ma*tism (#), n.…

An apohlegmatic medicine.

The action of apophlegmatics.

An apophlegmatic. [Obs.]

Same as Apothegmatic.

Having or designating conspicuous or warning colors or structures indicative of special means of defense against enemies, as in the skunk.