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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

AN'IMATE, v.t [L. amino. See Animal.]
1. To give natural life to; to quicken; to make alive; as the soul animates the body.
2. To give powers to, or to heighten the powers or effect of a thing; as, to animate a lyre.
3. To give spirit or vigor; to infuse courage, joy, or other enlivening passion; to stimulate or incite; as, to animate dispirited troops.
AN'IMATE, a. Alive; possessing animal life.
[This word is used chiefly in poetry for animated.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings; "the word `dog' is animate" [ant: inanimate]
2: endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life; "we are animate beings" [ant: inanimate, non-living, nonliving]
3: endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness; "the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage"- T.E.Lawrence [syn: sentient, animate] [ant: insensate, insentient] v
1: heighten or intensify; "These paintings exalt the imagination" [syn: inspire, animate, invigorate, enliven, exalt]
2: give lifelike qualities to; "animated cartoons" [syn: animize, animise, animate]
3: make lively; "let's liven up this room a bit" [syn: enliven, liven, liven up, invigorate, animate] [ant: blunt, deaden]
4: give new life or energy to; "A hot soup will revive me"; "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my health" [syn: animate, recreate, reanimate, revive, renovate, repair, quicken, vivify, revivify]

Merriam Webster's

I. adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Latin animatus, past participle of animare to give life to, from anima breath, soul; akin to Old English ?thian to breathe, Latin animus spirit, Greek anemos wind, Sanskrit aniti he breathes Date: 15th century 1. possessing or characterized by life ; alive 2. full of life ; animated 3. of or relating to animal life as opposed to plant life 4. referring to a living thing <an animate noun> • animately adverb • animateness noun II. transitive verb (-mated; -mating) Date: 15th century 1. to give spirit and support to ; encourage 2. a. to give life to b. to give vigor and zest to 3. to move to action <a criminal animated by greed> 4. a. to make or design in such a way as to create apparently spontaneous lifelike movement <animate a cartoon> b. to produce in the form of an animated cartoon <animate a story> Synonyms: see quicken

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. & v. --adj. 1 having life. 2 lively. --v.tr. 1 enliven, make lively. 2 give life to. 3 inspire, actuate. 4 encourage. Etymology: L animatus past part. of animare give life to f. anima life, soul

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Animate An"i*mate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Animated; p. pr. & vb. n. Animating.] [L. animatus, p. p. of animare, fr. anima breath, soul; akin to animus soul, mind, Gr. ? wind, Skr. an to breathe, live, Goth. us-anan to expire (us- out), Icel. ["o]nd breath, anda to breathe, OHG. ando anger. Cf. Animal.] 1. To give natural life to; to make alive; to quicken; as, the soul animates the body. 2. To give powers to, or to heighten the powers or effect of; as, to animate a lyre. --Dryden. 3. To give spirit or vigor to; to stimulate or incite; to inspirit; to rouse; to enliven. The more to animate the people, he stood on high . . . and cried unto them with a loud voice. --Knolles. Syn: To enliven; inspirit; stimulate; exhilarate; inspire; instigate; rouse; urge; cheer; prompt; incite; quicken; gladden.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Animate An"i*mate, a. [L. animatus, p. p.] Endowed with life; alive; living; animated; lively. The admirable structure of animate bodies. --Bentley.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(animating, animated) 1. Something that is animate has life, in contrast to things like stones and machines which do not. ...all aspects of the material world, animate and inanimate. = living ADJ 2. To animate something means to make it lively or more cheerful. The girls watched, little teasing smiles animating their faces. = enliven VERB: V n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. 1. Quicken, inform, make alive, give life to, vivify. 2. Invigorate, fortify, revive, give vigor or energy to. 3. Stimulate, waken, rouse, whet, incite, impel, excite, fire, heat, urge, provoke, warm, goad, kindle, prompt, work up, set on. 4. Encourage, inspire, inspirit, embolden, enhearten, hearten, exhilarate, gladden, elate, elevate, flush, erect.

Moby Thesaurus

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