[n. of action f. next: see -ATION.]
1. The action of converting into animal substance.
1800. Hatchett, in Phil. Trans., XC. 401. That part of the blood [fibrin] which has undergone the most complete animalization.
1836. Todd, Cycl. Anat. & Phys., 29/2. The animalization of the chyle.
1859. L. Simpson, Handbk. Dining, vii. 61. To discover in vegetables those affinities in consequence of which they also became susceptible of animalisation.
2. A rendering unspiritual or sensual; sensualization. rare.
1862. Draper, Intell. Devel. Eur., viii. (1868), 192. Though polytheism had lost all intellectual strength, the nations who had so recently parted with it could not be expected to have ceased from all disposition to an animalization of religion and corporealization of God.
ǁ 3. Distribution of animal existence; animal population. (Not yet naturalized.)
1840. Sir C. Lemon, in Jrnl. R. Agric. S., I. IV. 414. What the French call the animalization of the departments is shown as follows:—Cattle … 2,628,924; Sheep … 6,764,107, [etc.].
