a. rare. [f. ANIMAL + -IC by form-assoc. with angel-ic, etc.] Of or belonging to animals.
1677. Hale, Prim. Orig. Man., III. vi. 281. The Eggs of a perfect Animal … willlose their animalick [printed Animatick] Faculties, being frozen or concrete with cold.
1878. T. Sinclair, Mount, 171. Falling next to Drydenism, and finishing with the animalic lyre of innuendo.
