animastic
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin animus (“the mind, in a great variety of meanings: the rational soul in man, intellect, consciousness, will, intention, courage, spirit, sensibility, feeling, passion, pride, vehemence, wrath, etc., the breath, life, soul”), closely related to anima, which is a feminine form; see anima.
Adjective edit
animastic (comparative more animastic, superlative most animastic)
- (rare) Pertaining to or possessing an animate nonphysical nature; having a mental or spiritual nature.
- 1816, Thomas Taylor, “A Dissertation on the Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries,”, in The Pamphleteer, volume 8, number 15, page 66:
- But we employ fables in an animastic mode, when we contemplate the energies of the soul.
- Relating to mind or spirit; spiritual.
References edit
- Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.