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animate

In grammar, referring to characteristics of living things. The principal parts of speech can all be animate: baby, mouse, and flea are animate nouns; cry, speak, and hope are animate verbs; friendly, stupid, and toothless are animate adjectives.

Animate words can be used metaphorically in inanimate contexts; for example, toothless in a phrase such as ‘a toothless argument’.
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As, therefore, in the case of animate bodies and organisms a certain magnitude is necessary, and a magnitude which may be easily embraced in one view; so in the plot, a certain length is necessary, and a length which can be easily embraced by the memory.
The Poetics of Aristotle by Aristotle View in context
At the least, a prince may animate and inure some meaner persons, to be as it were scourges, to ambitions men.
The Essays by Bacon, Sir Francis View in context
Hem believes that in the visible world there are void places-- vacua, and something more--holes, as it were, through which animate and inanimate objects may fall into the invisible world and be seen and heard no more.
Present At A Hanging And Other Ghost Stories by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
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