animalization
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Compare French animalisation.
Noun edit
animalization (countable and uncountable, plural animalizations)
- The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties.
- 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
Translations edit
the act of endowing with animal properties
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conversion into animal matter by the process of assimilation
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References edit
“animalization”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.