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t. & i. [In Fr. animer; Sp. & Port. animar; Ital. animare. From Lat. animo = to fill with breath or air, to make alive. To endow with anima = air, a soul.] [ANIMAL.] A. Transitive: I. Literally: To endow with natural life; to impart life at first, or preserve it when imparted. Where searching sunbeams scarce can find a way Earth animated heaves." Thomson : Summer , 296. II. Figuratively: 1. Of inanimate things: To impart the semblance of life to; to give power to; to heighten the effect of. "Heroes in animated marble frown." 2. Of persons: Pope : Temple of Fame, 78. (a) To inspire with courage or ardour, to enliven, to stimulate. "Thus arm'd, he animates his drooping bands." Pope: Homer; Iliad v. 606. (b) To imbue or inspire with; to cause to be actuated by. "They would come up to Westminster animated by the spirit of 1640."- Macaulay : "-Macaulay: Hist . Eng ., ch. viii. B. In trans. To become lively, to revive. ( Mad . D'Arblay : Cecilia , bk. i., ch. iv.) ăn'-im-āte, a. The same as the participial adj. ANIMATED (q.v.). -Bentley. the admirable structure of animate bodies." ăn-im-a-těd, pa. par. & a. [ANIMATE, V.] As adjective: the same animated descriptions, -Lewis: Early Rom , Hist ., ch. xiii., pt. i., § 1. debate."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng ., ch. xxiv. " on the report there was an animated Animated Nature : That portion of Nature in which there is life, in contradistinction to that from which life is absent. "Nature inanimate employs sweet sounds, But animated Nature sweeter still, To soothe and satisfy the human ear." Cowper: Task , bk. i. + ăn'-im-ate-ne , s. [Eng. animate; -ne .] The state of being animated. (Johnson.) ăn'-im-ā-ting, pr. par. & a. [ΑΝΙΜΑΤΕ, ν.] As adjective: to the sun allied, From him they draw their animating fire." Thomson: Seasons; Summer. "As from a lethargy at once they rise, And urge their chief with animating cries." Pope: Homer's Ody ey, bk. x., 558, 559. It was Animating Principle : An English term corresponding to the Greek ψυχή (psuche), which means (1) breath, life (2) soul; (3) reason; (4) a living spirit, supposed to go through all the earth and the ocean. called by the Romans anima mundi. In the plural, animating principles correspond to the Greek ψυχαί (psuchai). The hypothesis of Aristotle on the subject was that there were an infinite number of distinct animating principles, no two precisely identical with each other in qualities. Each of these nece arily had its corresponding body, which accounted for the great diversities among the species of animated beings existing in the world. All, however, acted under the direction of the supreme animating principle or φύσις ( phusis ) =(1) growth, (2) outward form, (3) nature. The immortal Harvey held a somewhat similar belief, and the "materia vitæ " (material of life) of John Hunter, the "organic force" of Muller, and the "organic agens" of Dr. Prout are all akin to the ψυχή ( psuche ), or animating principle of Aristotle. (See Todd and Bowman's Physiol. Anat ., vol. i., pp. 16, 17.) "Annus was synonymous with annulus , and originally meant a ring or circle, like circus and circulus ." ( Lewis : Astron. of the Ancients, ch. i., 3.) The old form of ann us was amnus, as in solemn is. (Key: Philol . E ays , 1868, p. ăn-im-a-tăng-ly, adv. [Eng. animating; -ly.] In a manner to produce animation.