ppl. a. [f. as prec. + -ING2.] Life-giving, quickening, vivifying; enlivening, inspiring, encouraging; rendering life-like.

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1680.  in Roxb. Bal. (1883), IV. 547. Bring me a man with animating stroaks, Whose pregnant Steel gives life to formless rocks.

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1727.  Thomson, Summer, 168. From him they draw their animating fire.

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1782.  Miss Burney, Cecilia, I. vii. (1783), 88. So animating are the designs of disinterested benevolence.

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1860.  Tyndall, Glac., I. § 25. 182. The talk was incessant and animating.

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1869.  Seeley, Lect. & Ess., i. 18. No new animating principle.

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