单词 | animalizing |
释义 | animalizingn. The action of animalize v. (in various senses); esp. the process of representing a person or thing as an animal with respect to appearance or character; animalization. ΚΠ 1781 W. Moss Ess. Managem. & Nursing of Children 71 (note) The process in the animal constitution..by which a change is effected in the quality or property of the vegetables they eat..is called animalizing. 1860 Chem. News 12 May 274/1 Numerous chemists have most laboriously worked upon the animalising of cotton tissues. 1955 Times 18 May 8/6 It does not bring about a primitivizing or animalizing of the human, but rather it celebrates man at his human best. 1998 N.Y. Mag. 17 Aug. 55/1 Brown, an..Austrian-trained designer of homewares, is best known for his reworkings—often animalizing—of everyday objects. 2007 Yearbk. Eng. Stud. (Nexis) 1 July 85 Her book provides a feminist analysis of the animalizing of women. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022). animalizingadj.ΘΚΠ the mind > will > motivation > [adjective] > inciting or instigating stirring1421 movingc1443 provokingc1443 incitative1490 urgent1559 propulsory1585 pricking1592 pulsive1602 incentive1603 incitatory1610 urging1612 animalizing1617 impellent1620 irritant1636 instigative1644 propulsive1648 promptive1653 parastatic1656 exstimulatory1657 impulsory1659 appelling1666 irritative1686 instigating1702 spurring1702 stimulatinga1732 stimulatory1758 impulsive1788 stimulant1803 stimulative1836 exertivea1856 inciting1855 incitant1886 incitive1888 on-driving1927 incitory1941 the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > [adjective] > bringing into action animalizing1617 bestirring1628 actuating1631 turn-on1967 1617 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. ΚΠ 1781 R. Harrington Philos. & Exper. Enq. 174 I hope my reader is now satisfied that the lungs is the great animalizing viscera, exposing the blood to a large surface of the air, with a motive of receiving phlogiston from it. 1851 Edinb. Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 76 158 It is sufficient to observe that the presence of both the chemical agent and the animalizing principle is unquestionably necessary to the healthy digestion of the alimentary articles. 3. That reduces to the rank or nature of an animal. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > sensuality > [adjective] > animal nature in man beastlyc1225 beastisha1398 bestiala1398 beast-like1526 brutala1533 brutish1567 animal1581 doggish1594 belluine1618 ferine1640 animalizing1825 animalized1827 1825 S. T. Coleridge Aids Refl. 132 The animalizing tendency of his own philosophy. 1861 H. Bushnell Christian Nurture ii. iii. 262 This same animalizing process. 1941 E. Wilson Boys in Back Room 48 This animalizing tendency of Mr. Steinbeck's is, I believe, at the bottom of his relative unsuccess at representing human beings. 1950 H. T. Christensen Marriage Anal. ii. 46 The brutalizing and animalizing experiences of military life. 2001 N.Y. Times 6 May ii. 35/5 One may still regard his music as toxic, whether it does its animalizing work at Nazi rallies, in school auditoriums,..or in Avery Fisher Hall. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1781adj.1617 |
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