a. and sb. [ad. med.L. animastic-us pertaining to the soul, f. L. anima breath, life. A hybrid formation: cf. onomastic.]
A. adj. Possessed of mind or spirit, as opposed to what is purely material; spiritual; sometimes = ANIMATE.
1651. J. F[reake], Agrippa’s Occ. Philos., 370. The order of Animastick, viz. of blessed souls.
1794. T. Taylor, Plotinus, 226. A life neither vegetable, nor sensitive, nor of any other animastic nature. Ibid. (1816), Pamphl., VIII. 65. Of fables … some are theological, others physical, others animastic (or relating to soul).
1855. Bailey, Mystic, 123. Stretched from the all essential infinite, To animastic orders and ourselves.
† B. sb. Psychology. Obs.
1836–7. Sir W. Hamilton, Lect. Metaph. (1877), III. ii. 28 (L.). They [apprehension, judgment, and reasoning] belonged to Animastic, as they called it, or Psychology.
