单词 | animative |
释义 | animativeadj. rare. 1. That has the ability to animate; enlivening, life-giving. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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). < adj.1706 |
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