单词 | animalization |
释义 | animalizationn. 1. a. The conversion of nutrients and other matter into animal matter; the formation of animal matter. Also: an instance of this. Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > chemical reactions or processes > [noun] > chemical reactions or processes (named) > miscellaneous other processes redintegrationa1550 decoction1555 fixion1555 cementation1592 fumigation1617 spiritualization1651 retortion1657 rocking1673 phosphorizationa1687 concentration1689 humectation1706 animalization1733 hyperoxygenation1793 bituminization1804 assimilation1830 metamorphosis1843 transformation1857 retorting1858 tincturation1860 regeneration1869 nitrification1880 diagenesis1886 aluminothermy1900 aluminothermics1902 photoprocess1910 olation1931 mass transfer1937 reconcentration1956 tritiation1961 borohydride reduction1965 1733 P. Shaw tr. F. Bacon Sylva Sylvarum in Philos. Wks. III. 30 As Nature does every Day in Vegetation, and Animalization. 1767 J. Priestley Hist. & Present State Electr. iv. 489 The processes of calcination, vegetation, animalization. 1800 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 90 401 This substance (called fibrin by chemists) may be regarded as that part of the blood which has undergone the most complete animalization. 1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 29/2 The animalization of the chyle. 1859 L. F. Simpson Handbk. Dining vii. 61 To discover in vegetables those affinities in consequence of which they also became susceptible of animalisation. 1861 Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 32 100 Vegetation and animalization must be operations the reverse of combustion and putrefaction. 1901 M. Foster Lect. Hist. Physiol. 223 They who were under the influence of the Stahlian vitalistic doctrines..held the change to be the commencement of, to be the first step in, the conversion of dead food into living flesh and blood, and spoke of it as an animalisation. 1963 Isis 54 61 There was little direct evidence for the theory of animalization. b. The process of treating plant fibre or fabric to improve its receptivity to dyes. Cf. animalize v. 4. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > treating or processing textile fabric > [noun] > other processes starching1390 drawing1579 lapper1732 animalization1783 gassing1822 stuff-presser1831 rot-steep1835 plating1843 oversizing1882 Schreinering1905 Schreinerizing1906 potting1920 tie-dye1926 ikat1931 pre-boarding1940 permanent press1944 stentering1946 1783 tr. T. Bergman Ess. Usefulness Chem. 58 Linen, in order to be rendered susceptible of certain colours, must receive an impregnation from some animal substance. As, by this means, it is brought nearer to the nature of wool, or other such animal productions, the process may be called animalization. 1816 Ann. Philos. 8 463 The ingredients used give very little sanction to the idea of animalization. 1862 C. O'Neill Dict. Calico Printing 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. 1960 U.S. Patent 2,947,594 1 The present process, whereby cellulose materials which are normally not susceptible to dyestuffs of the type conventionally employed in the dyeing of wool, are rendered susceptible, will be termed ‘animalization’. 2. The action of making into or representing as an animal; (also) the action of becoming more animal-like. Cf. animalize v. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > [noun] > representation of god(s) zoomorphism1822 theotechny1858 animalization1886 tricephal1888 theriomorphism1908 1836 C. S. Rafinesque Amer. Nations Spring v. 149 We mean all the English when we speak of John Bull, the Russians by the Northern Bear (a kind of animalization). 1886 T. H. Huxley 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. 1976 M. Bishop And Strange at Ecbatan ix. 59 On the man I had killed this facial down had seemed more horrifying, the sort of animalization of human features that Blaine was now insisting upon. 1994 E. Shohat & R. Stam Unthinking Eurocentrism iv. 138 Animalization forms part of the larger, more diffuse mechanism of naturalization: the reduction of the cultural to the biological... Colonized people are projected as body rather than mind. 2000 Hist. Today Aug. 22/2 The tales of the ‘animalisation’ of humans that can be traced in the early modern period come in a variety of forms. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by habitat > [noun] > of a particular region (fauna) > distribution of animals animalization1840 zoogeography1851 1840 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 1 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 becoming more sensual and less spiritual. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > sensuality > [noun] > animal sensuality > rendering animalization1863 1863 J. W. Draper Hist. Intellect. Devel. Europe viii. 192 An animalization of religion. 1993 Washington Post (Nexis) 30 July 21 I'm talking about..the animalization of sex—away from love and tenderness toward the bestial. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1733 |
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