v. [f. ANIMAL + -IZE.]
† 1. To make into an animal; to represent in animal form. Obs. rare.
1741. Warburton, Div. Legat., II. IV. § 6. 182. The polite Egyptian Priests who first animalized the Asterisms.
2. To convert into animal substance.
1770. Wesley, Nat. Phil., V. viii. § 14 (1784), IV. 190. The Hand, which has formed the polypus … can, when necessity requires, animalize matter at a much less expence.
1772. Hunter, in Phil. Trans., LXII. 454. Something secreted in the coats of the stomach, which … animalises the food, or assimilates it to the nature of the blood.
1805. W. Taylor, in Ann. Rev., III. 17. That the juice of the Indian fig may be animalized into a crimson die.
1869. Dict. Dyeing, in Eng. Mech., 28 May, 229/3. It is not possible to animalise a fabric in any other way than by actually depositing upon it the animal matter.
3. To reduce to animal nature; to sensualize, rouse the sensual passions of.
1806–31. A. Knox, Rem. (1844), I. 81. Nine out of ten are too much animalised for this.
1841. Arnold, Lect. Mod. Hist. (1878), 55. Has sensualized and animalized its character.
1842. Blackw. Mag., LI. 297. We have seen many a bright-eyed poissarde well able to animalize a monastery.
