ANIMALIZE

AN'IMALIZE, verb transitive 1. To give animal life to; to endow with the properties of animals.2. To convert into animal matter.

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animalize. Animalize, v.t. to form into an animal

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An″i‐mal‐ize (�), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Animalized (�); p. pr. & vb. n. Animalizing.] [[Cf. F. animaliser.]] 1. 1. To endow with the properties of an animal; to represent in animal form. Warburton.
2. 2. To convert into animal matter by the processes of assimilation.
3. 3. To render animal or sentient; to reduce to the state of a lower animal; to sensualize.
The unconscious irony of the Epicurean poet on the animalizing tendency of his own philosophy. Coleridge.