| Animal |
n. |
An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity or stomach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process of respiration; and by increasing in motive power or active aggressive force with progress to maturity. |
| Animal |
n. |
One of the lower animals; a brute or beast, as distinguished from man; as, men and animals. |
| Animal |
a. |
Of or relating to animals; as, animal functions. |
| Animal |
a. |
Pertaining to the merely sentient part of a creature, as distinguished from the intellectual, rational, or spiritual part; as, the animal passions or appetites. |
| Animal |
a. |
Consisting of the flesh of animals; as, animal food. |
| Animalcula |
pl. |
of Animalculum |
| Animalcular |
a. |
Alt. of Animalculine |
| Animalcule |
n. |
A small animal, as a fly, spider, etc. |
| Animalcule |
n. |
An animal, invisible, or nearly so, to the naked eye. See Infusoria. |
| Animalculine |
a. |
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, animalcules. |
| Animalculism |
n. |
The theory which seeks to explain certain physiological and pathological phenomena by means of animalcules. |
| Animalculism |
n. |
The theory that the spermatozoon and not the ovum contains the whole of the embryo; spermatism;
opposed to ovism. |
| Animalculist |
n. |
One versed in the knowledge of animalcules. |
| Animalculist |
n. |
A believer in the theory of animalculism. |
| Animalculum |
n. |
An animalcule. |
| Animalish |
a. |
Like an animal. |
| Animalism |
n. |
The state, activity, or enjoyment of animals; mere animal life without intellectual or moral qualities; sensuality. |
| Animality |
n. |
Animal existence or nature. |
| Animalization |
n. |
The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties. |
| Animalization |
n. |
Conversion into animal matter by the process of assimilation. |
| Animalize |
v. t. |
To endow with the properties of an animal; to represent in animal form. |
| Animalize |
v. t. |
To convert into animal matter by the processes of assimilation. |
| Animalize |
v. t. |
To render animal or sentient; to reduce to the state of a lower animal; to sensualize. |
| Animalized |
imp. & p. p. |
of Animalize |
| Animalizing |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Animalize |
| Animally |
adv. |
Physically. |
| Animalness |
n. |
Animality. |
