a. Obs. rare. [f. ANIMAL sb. + -ISH.] Of the nature of an animal.
1678. Cudworth, Intell. Syst., I. i. § 29. 37. Anaxagoras … did not make any Animalish Atoms Sensitive and Rational. Ibid., 73. To think that there was any Animalish Nature before all these Animals.
