vegetalise

English

Verb

vegetalise (third-person singular simple present vegetalises, present participle vegetalising, simple past and past participle vegetalised)

Alternative form of vegetalize
- 1917, Sir Henry John Newbolt, A New Study of English Poetry, page 249:
  Wireless imagination and the use of free words will lead us to the essence of Matter ... we may animalise, vegetalise, mineralise, electrify, and liquefy style, making it, to a certain extent, live the same life as that of matter.
- 2019, David Chandler, Julian Reid, Becoming Indigenous: Governing Imaginaries in the Anthropocene, page 69:
  Picking up on a range of associated work, such as Anna Tsing's ideas of 'collaborative survival' (2015), Marisol de la Cadena's view of cultivating relations with the 'antrhopos-not-seen' (2015), and Maria Puig de la Bellacasa's speculative ethics of care (2017), she argues that we need to learn from and listen to nonhuman modes of living, 'find ways to vegetalise our all-too-human sensorium, and learn how to involve ourselves with plants' (Myers, 2017a: 300, italics in original).
- 2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 238:
  If you say that a plant 'learns' 'decides', 'communicates' or 'remembers', are you humanising the plant, or vegetalising a set of human concepts?
- 2023, Sarah O'Brien, Bits and Pieces: Screening Animal Life and Death, page 36:
  Vialles observes the apparent euphemistic intent behind the appropriateion of the term from the industries of forestry, mining, and veterinary medicine, pointing out that this appropriation served to "vegetalise" a carnivorously motivated act.