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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.

Animating spirit; intention; temper. nimus furandi Etym: [L.] (Law), intention of stealing.

Peculiar character; animating spirit, as of a nation, a religion, a language.

Animating; cheering; moving; exhilarating; as, an inspiring or scene.

To impress, as an animating power, or instinct. [Obs.] Bentley.

Figuratively: The potential or animating principle, also, the period of duration, of anything that is conceived of as resembling a natural organism in structure or functions; as, the life of a state, a machine, or a book; authority is the life of government.

Inciting; animating; encouraging. [R.] Johnson.

The doctrine of Quesne, that there is a fluid universally diffused, end equally animating all living beings, the difference in their actions being due to the difference of the individual organizations. Fleming.

The act or operation of reanimating, or the state of being reanimated; reinvigoration; revival.

Reviving; reanimating. -- Re*fresh"ing*ly, adv. -- Re*fresh"ing*ness, n.

Returning or restoring to life or vigor; reanimating. Milton. -- Re*viv"ing*ly, adv.

nding; the seat of knowledge, as distinguished from feeling. In a more general sense, "an animating, separable, surviving entity, the vehicle of individual personal existence." Tylor. The eyes of our souls only then begin to see, when our bodily eyes are closing. Law.