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English
Etymology
From dis- + animate.
Verb
disanimate (third-person singular simple present disanimates, present participle disanimating, simple past and past participle disanimated)
- (transitive) To deprive of life.
1678, R[alph] Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: Richard Royston, , →OCLC:That soul and life , that is now fled and gone from a lifeless carcass , is only a loss to that particular body or compages of matter , which by means thereof is now disanimated
- (transitive) To deprive of spirit; to dishearten.
1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :Now will it best avail your majesty
To cross the seas and to be crown'd in France:
The presence of a king engenders love
Amongst his subjects and his loyal friends,
As it disanimates his enemies.
References
“disanimate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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Italian
Etymology 1
Verb
disanimate
- inflection of disanimare:
- second-person plural present indicative
- second-person plural imperative
Etymology 2
Participle
disanimate f pl
- feminine plural of disanimato
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