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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.

The doctrine, taught by Stahl, that the soul is the proper principle of life and development in the body.

An umbelliferous plant (Pimpinella anisum) growing naturally in Egypt, and cultivated in Spain, Malta, etc., for its carminative and aromatic seeds.

oop at the top, used as an attribute or sacred emblem, symbolizing generation or enduring life. Called also crux ansata.

To pronounce; to declare by judicial sentence. Publish laws, announce Or life or death. Prior.

A sum of money, payable yearly, to continue for a given number of years, for life, or forever; an annual allowance.

arenthesis; as, Shall that heart (which not only feels them, but which has all motions of life placed in them), shall that heart, etc.

The earlier events of one's life; previous principles, conduct, course, history. J. H. Newman. If the troops . . . prove worthy of their antecedents, the victory is surely ours. Gen. G. McClellan.

or impression of; as, to anticipate the pleasures of a visit; to anticipate the evils of life.

ith, or causing, anxiety; worrying; -- applied to things; as, anxious labor. The sweet of life, from which God hath bid dwell far off all anxious cares. Milton.

o abstract truth rather than to practical matters. The first aphorism of Hippocrates is, "Life is short, and the art is long." Fleming.

Umbelliferous.

whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5.

After the death of his nephew Caligula, Claudius was in no small apprehension for his own life. Addison.

s said to have poisoned more than 600 persons. Francis. -- Aqua vitæ Etym: [L., water of life. Cf. Eau de vie, Usquebaugh], a name given to brandy and some other ardent spirits. Shak.

tending up to the Lower Silurian. It includes an Azoic age, previous to the appearance of life, and an Eozoic age, including the earliest forms of life.

Like or belonging to the earliest forms of animal life.

rt of building houses, churches, bridges, and other structures, for the purposes of civil life; -- often called civil architecture. Many other architectures besides Gothic. Ruskin.