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Animate

verb

(past & past part. animated; pres. part. animating)

1.

Heighten or intensify. Synonyms: enliven, exalt, inspire, invigorate.

2.

Give lifelike qualities to. Synonyms: animise, animize.

3.

Make lively. Synonyms: enliven, invigorate, liven, liven up.

4.

Give new life or energy to. Synonyms: quicken, reanimate, recreate, renovate, repair, revive, revivify, vivify. "This will renovate my spirits" , "This treatment repaired my health"

adjective

1.

Belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings.

2.

Endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life.

3.

Endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness. Synonym: sentient.

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... and bold, and at least in form wonderfully original; he is persuasive without argument and mystical without conventionality; he moves in the atmosphere of science and free thought, yet seems to transcend them and to be secretly religious. An undercurrent of zeal and even of prophecy seems to animate his subtle analyses and his surprising fancies. He is eloquent, and to a public rather sick of the half-education it has received and eager for some inspiriting novelty he seems more eloquent than he is. He uses the French language (and little else is French about him) in the ...

— Winds Of Doctrine - Studies in Contemporary Opinion • George Santayana

... many a churlish billow, And therefore let it rest upon thy pillow." Herewith affrighted, Hero shrunk away, And in her lukewarm place Leander lay; Whose lively heat, like fire from heaven fet,[35] Would animate gross clay, and higher set The drooping thoughts of base-declining souls, Than dreary-Mars-carousing nectar bowls. His hands he cast upon her like a snare: She, overcome with shame and sallow[36] fear, 260 Like chaste Diana when Actaeon spied ...

— The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3) • Christopher Marlowe

... be disinterested in this supreme effort of the various Christian denominations for unity. We are not allowed to doubt the good intentions that animate and direct the promoters of this inter-church movement. For, as Lord Morley said, "in the heat of the battle it often happens that men manifest towards the heretic feeling which should be exclusively reserved for the heresy." ...

— Catholic Problems in Western Canada • George Thomas Daly

... ourselves in a much more diversified country than any we had hitherto travelled. Gently swelling hills, lovely valleys, and bright sparkling streams were the features of the landscape. But there was little animate life. Now and then a shout from the leader of the party (for, according to custom, we travelled Indian file) would call our attention to a herd of deer "loping," as the Westerners say, through the ...

— Wau-bun - The Early Day in the Northwest • Juliette Augusta Magill Kinzie

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