ˈanimalizing,ppl.a. [f. as prec. + -ing2.] Reducing to the rank or character of an animal; sensualizing. 1824Coleridge Aids to Refl. (1848) I. 102 The animalizing tendency of his own philosophy.1847Bushnell Chr. Nurture ii. iii. (1861) 278 This same animalizing process.