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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.

The first year's profits of a spiritual preferment, anciently paid by the clergy to the pope; first fruits. In England, they now form a fund for the augmentation of poor livings.

he existence of; to cause to cease to be. It impossible for any body to be utterly annihilated. Bacon.

Curved somewhat in the form of the letter S. Cussans.

To name. [R.]

To explain or criticize by notes; as, to annotate the works of Bacon.

One of the Annulata.

Furnished with, or composed of, rings; ringed; surrounded by rings of color.

To add on; to count in. [Obs.] Wollaston.

To announce.

Of another sort. [Obs.] "Another-gates adventure." Hudibras.

Having a handle. Johnson.

Having the extremities terminate in the heads of eagles, lions, etc.; as, an anserated cross.

One of several species of edentates and monotremes that feed upon ants. See Ant-bear, Pangolin, Aard-vark, and Echidna.

Prior date; a date antecedent to another which is the actual date.

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

in doing; to do or take before another; to preclude or prevent by prior action. To anticipate and prevent the duke's purpose. R. Hall. He would probably have died by the hand of the executioner, if indeed the executioner had not been anticipated by the populace. Macaulay.