anime (anime)

[Sometimes accented like equiv. F. animé, on the fancy that it is so called because often “ animé ” ( anime = F. anime (Cotgrave), now animé , Sp. Pg. anime (NL. anime, animi, also anijmum ), ap plied in the middle of the 16th century, and prob. earlier, to a gum brought from the East by the Portuguese; afterward applied to a similar product from the West Indies. The word, which has not been found native in the East or elsewhere, is said by Ray and others to be a Portuguese corruption of aminæa, Gr. ἀμιναῖα (Dioscorides), a resinous gum, this name being appar. an adj. (sc. σμύρνα, myrrh), referring to a people of Arabia bordering on the Red Sea, from whom the gum was obtained. Elemi is a different word.] 1. The name of various resins, also known in pharmacy as elemi (which see).-2. A kind of copal, the produce principally of a leguminous tree, Trachylobium Hornemannianum, of Zanzibar. The best is that dug from the ground at the base of the trees, or that found in a semi-fo il state in localities where the tree is now extinct. 3. The produce of a very nearly allied tree of tropical America, Hymenæa Courbaril, known in the West Indies as the locust-tree. It makes a fine varnish, and, as it burns with a very fragrant smell, is used in scenting pastilles. 220 animosité, animosity, = Pr. an i mos it at =Sp.ani mosidad, valor, = Pg. animosidade = It. animosità, animositade, an i mos it ate, courage, animosity, Cato, before he durst give the fatal stroke, spent part of the night in reading the Immortality of Plato, thereby attempt. confirming his wavering hand unto the animosity of that 2. Active enmity; hatred or ill-will which man Sir T. Browne, Urn-Burial, iv. ifests itself in active opposition. No sooner did the duke receive this appeal from the wife of his enemy, than he generously forgot all feeling of animosity, determined to go in person to his suc cor. Irving , Granada, p. 48. Supposing no animosity is felt, the hurting another by accident arouses a genuine feeling of regret in all adults save the very brutal. H. Spencer , Prin. of Psychol., § 529. =Syn. 2. Animosity , Ill - will , Enmity , Malice , Hostility , Hatred, Hate, Malevolence, Malignity , Rancor, Grudge, Spite. words differ described under acrimony, anger , and antipathy (which see) in that they represent deeper feelings or more permanent pa ions. Ill - will may represent the minimum of feeling, being a willing or wishing of ill to another, generally without disposition to be active in bringing the evil about. En mity is a somewhat stronger feeling, and it often gratifies itself in trifling and cowardly ways. Animosity is more intense than enmity; it is avowed and active, and what it does is more serious than the covert attacks of enmity or the hasty attacks of spite . Malice is pure badne heart, delighting in harm to others for its own sake. Hos tility is le pa ionate than animosity , but not le avowed or active, being a state of mind inclining one to aggre ive warfare. Hatred and hate are the general words to cover all these feelings; they may also be ultimate, expre ing the concentration of the whole nature in an intense ill will. Malevolence is more casual and temporary than mal See Vateria .