rare. [f. ANIMAL sb. + -HOOD.] The state or condition of the inferior animals.
1863. Reader, Nov., 537. A creature almost lapsed from humanity into animalhood.
1867. H. W. Beecher, in Manhattan Independent (KS), 20 April, 1/3. It is an attempt to create manhood in man, instead of animalhood, or upon it.
