1601 Hels Torments sig. Ax The hellish coward dares not mannage fight. Resist him then, if thou wilt victor be,For so he flees, and is disanimate.

1614 C. Brooke Ghost Richard III sig. L2^v My Horse being slaine, with him I fell to Ground, And yet euen then was not disanimate, For my high Spirit, aboue my Flesh did bound, Scorning the limit of my mortall Date.

1681 P. Rycaut tr. B. Gracián y Morales Critick 228 They saw..many disanimate Bodies.

1822 S. T. Coleridge Notebks. (1990) IV. 4880 I should consider the vaccine and variolous virus as disanimate Zöic.

1985 Grand Street 5 246 The end of life has two separate aspects. It is a rejoining of nature in a disanimate form.

1565 W. Alley Πτωχομυσεῖον Ep. Ded. sig. A.ii^v The furies of certayne snuffing detractours..had almost disanimate me from so vertuous an atchiefe, and godlye attempt.

1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. F6 [They] also rather animate, than disanimate them to perseuere in their wickednes.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) iii. i. 187 The presence of a King engenders loue Amongst his Subiects..As it dis-animates his Enemies. View more context for this quotation

1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 183 Yet the sublime height did not disanimate us.

1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi vii. App. 73/2 The Garrisons..were so disanimated at these Disasters.

1798 T. Wood Def. of Late National Fast 36 King Saul was disanimated, and lost the spirit he once had, when God departed from him.

1837 W. H. Wharton Let. 6 Jan. in Ann. Rep. Amer. Hist. Assoc. 1907 (1908) II. 171 That the Mexicans would have his message..circulated through all the Country. That it would disanimate our friends.

1870 tr. P. M. Sagasta in Standard 1 Aug. 5/4 The Government were not disanimated by this, but they persevered with the greatest ardour.

1973 K. R. Maxwell Confl. & Conspiracies vii. 189 The suspension of the derrama..had not been sufficient to disanimate the conspirators.

1609 J. Davies Humours Heau'n on Earth 214 In too much, Nature oft is ouershot; And oft too little, Art disanimates: Then, in this life, that seeke I, for my part, That Nature keepes in life, and quickens Art.

1645 W. Smith Let. 5 Feb. in God appearing for Parl. 18 They placed their great gunnes laden with Case-Shot, that in case a breach should be made those guns might disanimate our men in entering, or performe suddaine execution on them.

1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. i. 38 That Soul and Life that is now fled and gone, from a lifeless Carcase, is only a loss to that particular Body or Compages of Matter, which by means thereof is now disanimated.

a1727 J. Reynolds Prac. Disc. Reconciliation between God & Man (1729) ii. 13 Not speak at this majestick rate, as becomes the God of Heaven to speak, lest we die, be disanimated, or struck dead at the Terror of his Voice.

1973 Science-Fiction Stud. 1 73 He considered the tendency of schizophrenics to disanimate the world.

2007 R. Jones Crypt of Moaning Diamond iv. 64 ‘I am not disanimating that skeleton,’ said the wizard.

1605 S. Rowlands Theater Delightfull Recreation 27 Daunted with feare of the Philistines force, Disanimated Saul, where shall I flie?

1768 J. Peacock Christian's Triumph 14 The disanimated clay is laid in the dust, and rests in hope of a glorious resurrection.

1833 C. Lamb Barrenness Imaginative Faculty in Last Ess. Elia 180 [The Dryad] linked to her own con-natural tree, co-twisting with its limbs her own till both seemed either—these animated branches; those disanimated members.

1926 Waterloo (Iowa) Evening Courier 30 Sept. 6/5 For a moment she was a disanimated figure. Her mind, all her senses, were drained away.

2007 R. Finch Iambics of Newfoundland 249 They do not seem the visible forms of souls, but rather the opposite: disanimated bodies.

1659 J. Templer Saints Duty in Contending Faith 21 Upon their neglect, an infatuation fell upon those who were famed for prudence, a disanimating fear upon persons of the greatest resolution.

1673 J. Howe Blessedness of Righteous (new ed.) x. 194 It is not Death formally, or the disanimating of the body..but..the exuscitation and revival of the Soul.

1791 E. Darwin Bot. Garden: Pt. I i. 87 To..stay Despair's disanimating sigh.

1814 R. Southey Roderick xviii. 83 From whence disanimating fear had driven The former primate.

1910 R. G. Usher Reconst. Eng. Church I. viii. 163 The disfurnishing of the seminaries, the disanimating of men to come and others to return.

2000 P. Yaeger Dirt & Desire i. 6 An ordinary child..is made freakish, attacked by disanimating rhetoric, envisioned as a corpse.