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animalist|ˈænɪməlɪst|
[f. as prec. + -ist.]
1. One who takes the ‘animal’ side of a discussion.
1837P. Parley Sun, Moon, & Stars liv. (ed. 2) 284 Vegetablists say that it is a fungous plant..but the animalists agree in affirming it to be the altered remains of dead frogs.
2. One who holds the doctrine of animalism; a sensualist.
1851in Kingsley's Lett. & Mem. I. 282 A ‘healthy animalist’ who has gone through that course of profligacy which, etc.
3. The same as animalculist.
1874Dunglison Med. Dict., Animalculist, Animalist, one who attempts to explain different physiological or pathological phenomena by means of animalcules.
4. An artist who makes figures of animals; an animal-painter or -sculptor; also, a writer of stories of animals.
1886Century Mag. Feb. 484/1 [Barye] brought envy and malice on his head through the erection..in the Tuileries gardens of his colossal bronze lion and serpent. It was then the sneer of ‘animalist’ began. 1890Universal Rev. 15 July 412 The animalists greatly repeat themselves. 1909Daily Chron. 19 Jan. 4/4 The whole crowd of animalists, from æsop to Mr. Jack London.
Hence animaˈlistic a., of or pertaining to animalism.
1877L. Stephen in Cornhill Mag. Apr. 427 One may see in him [sc. Kingsley] the type of character which, under other conditions, produces the ‘diabolical’ or rather the animalistic school of art and literature. 1955Bull. Atomic Sci. Mar. 76/3 Should we regret having to abandon many poetic illusions of the vast, pantheistic or animalistic interpretation of the world? |