ANIMATION

n. A‘%n-i?-ma/shu’n, Lat., animatio (q. v.). Fr.. animation. Ger.. Belebtheit (1st def.), Belebung, Be see lung (ad def.). It., a nim azione. Sp., an i mac i on. 1. The condition of being ‘alive or active. 2. As used by the older writers, the first manifestation of life in the foetus (* quickening ”); formerly suped to coincide with the endowment of the foetus with a soul. [A. 385; L, 104; M,58.] 3. Maniacal or emotional excitement. [A,385.] 4. As used by the French, innervation, eo ecaly that of a muscle. spended a. Ger., Scheintod. 1. The apparent death of an individual, as in asphyxia. Cf. AspHyx1a livid a and AsPHYXIA pallid a. 2. That state of a part in which for a time it is impo ible, as in cases of frostbite, to tell whether it will recover its normal condition or become necrosed.—Suspended a. of the new-born. See ASPHYXIA neon a to rum.