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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.

To deprive of life. [R.] Cudworth.

Lifeless; dead. [R.] "Carcasses exanimate." Spenser.

To animate. [Obs.] Donne.

Destitute of life; lacking animation; unanimated. Pope.

The quality or state of being inanimate. The deadness and inanimateness of the subject. W. Montagu.

To animate or inspire mutually. [Obs.] Donne.

To animate anew; to restore to animation or life; to infuse new life, vigor, spirit, or courage into; to revive; to reinvigorate; as, to reanimate a drowned person; to reanimate disheartened troops; to reanimate languid spirits. Glanvill.

To animate with a soul conveyed from another body. [R.] Bp. J. King (1608).

Unanimous. [Obs.]

Pertaining to the study of inanimate things.

To move to action; to actuate; to animate. [Obs.] Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul. Pope.

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.

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

The belief that inanimate objects and the phenomena of nature are endowed with personal life or a living soul; also, in an extended sense, the belief in the existence of soul or spirit apart from matter. Tylor.

Natural tendency; affinity; attraction; -- used of inanimate objects.

A collection of inanimate objects. [Obs.] Howell.