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单词 animative
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animativeadj.

Brit. /ˈanᵻmətɪv/, U.S. /ˈænəˌmeɪdɪv/, /ˈænəmədɪv/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin animāt- , animāre , -ive suffix.
Etymology: < classical Latin animāt-, past participial stem of animāre (see animate v.) + -ive suffix. Compare post-classical Latin animativus (13th cent.).
rare.
1. That has the ability to animate; enlivening, life-giving.
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the world > life > source or principle of life > giving of life > [adjective]
life-giving1550
vivific1551
vivificative1575
vivificant1576
vital1590
informing1631
vivifical1632
vivifying1635
informative1642
animantative1655
enlivening1664
vivificatinga1688
animative1706
vitalizing1813
blood-giving1840
1706 R. Brocklesby Explic. Gospel-theism v. 85/2 The Stoicks derive the Soul or Animative Principles even of Brute-Animals from Heaven.
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Animative, that which has the power of giving life, or animating.
1801 J. Corry Satir. View London 126 The animative inspiration of his spirit will renovate the love of religion in the hearts of many.
1811 P. B. Shelley Let. 24 Nov. (1964) I. 143 Perhaps the animative intellect of all this is in constant rotation of change.
a1868 C. Harpur Poet. Wks. (1984) 464 Glory's animative power Serves but to throne Regret.
1923 Times 20 Feb. 13/5 We owe to one our vegetative, to the other our animative capabilities.
1962 Trans. & Proc. Amer. Philol. Assoc. 93 13 The couplet immediately following has claimed precisely the same animative faculty for his own art, poetry.
2001 A. J. Christenson Art & Society in Highland Maya Community iv. 92 The same animative presence that gives the saints in its niches their ability to bestow divine blessings.
2. Perhaps: relative to animate beings. Obsolete.
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1792 T. Taylor in tr. Proclus Philos. & Math. Comm. (new ed.) I. Introd. 94 There are five orders of numbers, the divine, the essential, the animative, the natural, and the mathematic.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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