ppl. a. [UN-1 8. Cf. prec.]
1. Not animated or endowed with life.
1697. Dryden, Æneis, Ded., Ess. (ed. Ker), II. 231. Part of them kindled into life, and part a lump of unformed unanimated mud.
1799. Corry, Sat. Lond. (1803), 60. How infinitely superior are those animated originals of feminine perfection,… when compared with the unanimated beauties of even the Venus de Medici.
1834. W. Godwin, Lives Necromancers, 144. The ghost of the dead man stood erect before her, trembling at the view of his own unanimated limbs.
2. Dull, inanimate; not enlivened.
1734. Prompter, 19 Nov., 2/1. The empty, unanimated Briskness of a Fop, a Fool, or a Courtier.
1779. Johnson, L. P., Thomson, Wks. IV. 172. Of a dull countenance, and a gross, unanimated, uninviting appearance.
1815. Scott, Paul’s Lett. (1839), 193. The total absence of cattle from the fields, gives a dull and unanimated air to a French landscape. Ibid. (1816), Old Mort., xviii. A square face, and a set of stupid and unanimated features.
3. Not inspired or actuated by something.
1856. R. A. Vaughan, Mystics (1860), I. III. iii. 70. The understanding had been over-tasked—set to work unanimated and unaided by the conscience and the heart.
