animalistn.

1800 tr. L. S. Mercier New Picture Paris II. cclxiii. 435 Cast your eyes over the most esteemed treatises on medicine, you will find, instead of a simple and luminous theory, lying hypotheses; the absurd systems of animalists, vitalists, pretended chymists, irritalists.

1833 R. Dunglison New Dict. Med. Sci. I. 47/2 Animalculist, Animalist, one who attempts to explain different physiological or pathological phenomena by means of animalcules.

1839 Boston Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 6 Mar. 57 In the seventeenth century, Lewenhœck and Harsœker, Dutch physicians, having discovered that living animals were to be found in the seminal fluid, established the system of animalists.

1930 J. Gordon Some Craftie Arts ix. 126 With a few slashing chapters the Doctor demolishes the theories of the Seminovists and the Animalists, and then, turning against his semi-colleagues of the earlier branches of Ovism, makes short work of them also.

1813 T. Dwight in Panoplist Oct. 363/1 The Atheist must believe, that there is a God;..the Animalist, that there is good superior to sensual enjoyment.

1851 in C. Kingsley Lett. & Mem. I. 282 A ‘healthy animalist’ who has gone through that course of profligacy which [etc.].

2001 M. R. Katz tr. M. Artsybashev Sanin xii. 84 At one time people posed as if they were disgusted with life and possessed sublime, obscure spiritual needs; now they pose as animalists.

1837 ‘P. Parley’ Tales Sun, Moon & Stars (ed. 2) liv. 284 Vegetablists say that it is a fungous plant..but the animalists..agree in affirming it to be the altered remains of dead frogs.

1886 Cent. 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.

1890 Universal Rev. 15 July 412 The animalists greatly repeat themselves.

1909 Daily Chron. 19 Jan. 4/4 The whole crowd of animalists, from Æsop to Mr. Jack London.

1993 A. M. Gealt Painting of Golden Age 442 Animalists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, such as George Stubbs, Rosa Bonheur, Anton Mauve, and Willem Maris.

1985 Los Angeles Times 2 May i. 2/5 The animalist..was instantly suspicious that it was not bean sprouts the peace activist was going to cook over charcoal.

1991 New Scientist 4 May 10/1 Animalists have allied themselves with environmentalists as greens.

2006 A. D. Blechman Pigeons vi. 93 The animalists want to let nature take care of itself, and they want us all to be vegetarians... They think animals are people.