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animalization|ˈænɪməlaɪˈzeɪʃən|
[n. of action f. next: see -ation.]
1. a. The action of converting into animal substance.
1767J. Priestley Hist. & Pres. State Electr. iv. 489 The processes of calcination, vegetation, animalization. 1800Hatchett in Phil. Trans. XC. 401 That part of the blood [fibrin] which has undergone the most complete animalization. 1836Todd Cycl. Anat. & Phys. 29/2 The animalization of the chyle. 1859L. F. Simpson Handbk. Dining vii. 61 To discover in vegetables those affinities in consequence of which they also became susceptible of animalisation.
b. The process of animalizing vegetable fibre.
1862O'Neill Calico Printing & Dyeing 14 The present view of animalisation is, that it is not possible to animalise a fabric in any other way than by actually depositing upon it the animal matter in question.
2. A rendering unspiritual or sensual; sensualization. rare.
1863Draper Intell. Devel. Eur. viii. (1865) 192 An animalization of religion.
‖3. Distribution of animal existence; animal population. (Not yet naturalized.)
1840Sir C. Lemon in Jrnl. R. Agric. S. I. iv. 414 What the French call the animalization of the departments is shown as follows:—Cattle, 2,628,924; Sheep, 6,764,107.
4. The action of making into or representing as an animal. (Cf. animalize v. 1.)
1886Huxley in 19th Cent. Apr. 493 In the theology of both the Babylonians and the Egyptians there is abundant evidence..of..the deification of animals, and the converse animalisation of Gods. |