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1617 [implied in: Bp. F. White Orthodox Faith 350 Doctor White speaketh of succession, as it is described by your Doctors, and wherof there be two parts; one as it were the outward body; to wit, locall and lineall succession of person: the other is as the soule, or the animalizing part, to wit, the succession of doctrine. (at animalizing adj.)].

1624 Bp. F. White Replie to Iesuit Fishers Answere 577 The Gunpowder Treason, animalised by Iesuits,..is a Watchword for prudent men not to confide in them, whom the leuen of Superstition hath sowred.

1741 W. Warburton Divine Legation Moses II. iv. §6. 182 The polite Egyptian Priests who first animalized the Asterisms.

1835 W. Kirby On Power of God in Creation of Animals I. v. 181 Seemingly insignificant creatures..which seem as little animalized as any animal can be.

1889 Cent. Dict. (at cited word) The Egyptians animalized their deities.

1909 A. T. de Mattos tr. M. Maeterlinck Blue Bird 8 The heads of the Dog and the Cat should be only discreetly animalised.

1963 J. V. Falconieri tr. E. A. Imbert Spanish-Amer. Lit. 547 Although the theme of his stories is not animal life, Cortázar will animalize man in cruel descriptions.

1999 J. D. Andriano Immortal Monster vii. 137 Moreau is humanizing beasts instead of animalizing humans.

1772 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 62 454 Something secreted in the coats of the stomach, which..animalises the food, or assimilates it to the nature of the blood.

1783 Ann. Reg. 1782 67/1 Those [lac] insects have little trouble in animalizing the sap of these trees in the formation of their cells.

1805 Ann. Rev. 3 17/1 It appears..that the juice of the Indian fig may be animalized into a crimson die, by other processes than the digestion of the cochineal insect.

1869 Cosmopolitan 19 Aug. 314 The mineral vegetablises itself, the vegetable animalises itself.

1963 Isis 54 61 Vegetable nutrients are converted to animal substances, or ‘animalized’, in three successive stages.

1790 T. Henry in Mem. Lit. & Philos. Soc. Manch. 3 391 The idea of animalizing vegetable substances to promote their attraction for colouring matter, occurred to me many years since.

1862 C. O'Neill Dict. Calico Printing 14 It is not possible to animalise a fabric in any other way than by actually depositing upon it the animal matter in question.

1897 Locomotive 18 63 A new method has been devised for ‘animalizing’ cotton—that is, for giving it the character of animal fiber, so that it can be dyed by the processes that are used for wool.

1920 J. M. Matthews Applic. Dyestuffs vii. 203 It has been suggested to ‘animalize’ the cotton by coating it with gelatine or albumin.

1800 tr. L. S. Mercier New Picture Paris II. cclii. 398 Those guilty philosophers who are anxious to explain every thing by the bodily senses, and who would reduce every thing to objects purely physical. Fatal philosophy, which hast only sought to animalise man! [Fr. animaliser l'homme!]

1807 A. Knox Let. 25 Sept. in Remains (1834) I. 72 Nine out of ten are too much animalised for this.

1842 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 51 297 A bright-eyed poissarde well able to animalize a monastery.

1934 D. S. J. Zema Thoughtlessness of Mod. Thought i. 7 All of them engaged in the unholy task of humanizing God, divinizing and in turn animalizing man.

1950 E. Wilson Classics & Commercials 41 This tendency on Steinbeck's part to animalize humanity is evidently one of the causes of his relative unsuccess at creating individual humans.

2005 Brit. Jrnl. Hist. Sci. 38 354 Whereas bestiality was abhorrent as it animalized humans, the keeping of familiar-type pets was objectionable as it humanized animals.