animalization

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Etymology

Compare French animalisation.

Noun

animalization (countable and uncountable, plural animalizations)

  1. The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties.
  2. Conversion into animal matter by the process of assimilation.
    • 1843, Richard Owen, Lectures on the Comparative Anatomy and Physiology of the Invertebrate Animals:
      The raw material of this restoration is derived from without : the alimentary canal , in which the conversion and animalisation of the food take place , is provided , in the Vertebrata , with two apertures

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animalization”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.