ppl. a. [f. as prec. + -ING2.] Reducing to the rank or character of an animal; sensualizing.
1824. Coleridge, Aids to Refl. (1848), I. 102. The animalizing tendency of his own philosophy.
1847. Bushnell, Chr. Nurture, II. iii. (1861), 278. This same animalizing process.
