Interanimate
adj, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 To animate or inspire mutually.
"When love, with another so Interanimates two souls"
- 1 Occurring as or involving interactions between separate consciousnesses. not-comparable
"Meanwhile, however, classicism had kept alive the imagination of an interanimate cosmos: of the land and the sea as gods and as comprising hosts of minor local deities; of humans as children of gods; of natural creatures as transformed humans (Daphne into laurel, Procne into swallow) or as transformable into human shape."
- 2 Mutually affecting; tending to interanimate. not-comparable
"If we agree with Pat Hartwell's statement that thinking and writing are interanimate, then we cannot help but address thinking when we speak of writing ."
Example
More examples"Meanwhile, however, classicism had kept alive the imagination of an interanimate cosmos: of the land and the sea as gods and as comprising hosts of minor local deities; of humans as children of gods; of natural creatures as transformed humans (Daphne into laurel, Procne into swallow) or as transformable into human shape."
Etymology
From inter- + animate.
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