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Animalize

verb
(past & past part. animalized; pres. part. animalizing)
1.
Represent in the form of an animal.  Synonym: animalise.
2.
Make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman.  Synonyms: animalise, brutalise, brutalize.
3.
Become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling.  Synonyms: animalise, brutalise, brutalize.






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"Animalize" Quotes from Famous Books



... as two kinds of motion are distinguished in Nature, the one called live force, the other dead, or inert force, two sorts of sensibility will be distinguished, the one active or alive, the other inert or dead. Then to animalize a substance, is only to destroy the obstacles that prevent its being active or sensible. In fact, sensibility is either a quality which communicates itself like motion, and which is acquired by combination; or this sensibility is a property inherent in ...
— The System of Nature, Vol. 1 • Baron D'Holbach



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