Definition of animate

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Animate (v. t.) To give natural life to; to make alive; to quicken; as, the soul animates the body..

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Exanimate :: Exanimate (a.) Destitute of animation; spiritless; disheartened.
Behavior :: Behavior (n.) Manner of behaving, whether good or bad; mode of conducting one's self; conduct; deportment; carriage; -- used also of inanimate objects; as, the behavior of a ship in a storm; the behavior of the magnetic needle..
Animism :: Animism (n.) The belief that inanimate objects and the phenomena of nature are endowed with personal life or a living soul; also, in an extended sense, the belief in the existence of soul or spirit apart from matter..
Heavy :: Heavy (superl.) Slow; sluggish; inactive; or lifeless, dull, inanimate, stupid; as, a heavy gait, looks, manners, style, and the like; a heavy writer or book..
Animate :: Animate (v. t.) To give powers to, or to heighten the powers or effect of; as, to animate a lyre..
Prosopop/ia :: Prosopop/ia (n.) A figure by which things are represented as persons, or by which things inanimate are spoken of as animated beings; also, a figure by which an absent person is introduced as speaking, or a deceased person is represented as alive and present. It includes personification, but is more extensive in its signification..
Stimulate :: Stimulate (v. t.) To excite as if with a goad; to excite, rouse, or animate, to action or more vigorous exertion by some pungent motive or by persuasion; as, to stimulate one by the hope of reward, or by the prospect of glory..
Instinct :: Instinct (a.) Urged or stimulated from within; naturally moved or impelled; imbued; animated; alive; quick; as, birds instinct with life..
Brute :: Brute (a.) Not having sensation; senseless; inanimate; unconscious; without intelligence or volition; as, the brute earth; the brute powers of nature..
Breather :: Breather (n.) One who breathes. Hence: (a) One who lives.(b) One who utters. (c) One who animates or inspires.
Exhort :: Exhort (v. t.) To incite by words or advice; to animate or urge by arguments, as to a good deed or laudable conduct; to address exhortation to; to urge strongly; hence, to advise, warn, or caution..
Erect :: Erect (v. t.) To animate; to encourage; to cheer.
Heartener :: Heartener (n.) One who, or that which, heartens, animates, or stirs up..
Informant :: Informant (v. t.) One who, or that which, informs, animates, or vivifies..
Warm :: Warm (v. i.) To become ardent or animated; as, the speake/ warms as he proceeds..
Inanimateness :: Inanimateness (n.) The quality or state of being inanimate.
Appetency :: Appetency (n.) Natural tendency; affinity; attraction; -- used of inanimate objects.
Exanimate :: Exanimate (v. t.) To deprive of animation or of life.
Animated :: Animated (imp. & p. p.) of Animat.
Disanimate :: Disanimate (v. t.) To deprive of spirit; to dishearten.
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