a. rare. [f. L. animāt- ppl. stem of animā-re (see prec.) + -IVE.]
1. Having the faculty of animating; enlivening, quickening.
1755. in Johnson.
1799. J. Corry, Sat. View Lond. (1803), 97. The animative inspiration of his spirit will renovate the love of religion in the hearts of many who are misled by the illusions of infidelity, and the sophisms of atheism.
† 2. ? Relative to animate beings. Obs. rare.
1792. T. Taylor, Comm. Proclus, I. Introd. 94. There are five orders of numbers, the divine, the essential, the animative, the natural, and the mathematic.
