All 8 Uses of
animate
in
Far from the Madding Crowd
- This circumstance, and the generally sleepy air of the whole prospect here, together with the animated and contrasting state of the reverse facade, suggested to the imagination that on the adaptation of the building for farming purposes the vital principle of the house had turned round inside its body to face the other way.†
Chpt 7-9
- They heard the sound of wheels yet once more, and were re-animated to expectancy: it was only Mr. Boldwood coming home again.†
Chpt 16-18
- Her beauty, which, whilst it had been quiescent, he had praised in jest, had in its animated phases moved him to earnest; and though his seriousness was less than she imagined, it was probably more than he imagined himself.†
Chpt 25-27
- The notes flew forth with the usual blind obtuseness of inanimate things—flapping and rebounding among walls, undulating against the scattered clouds, spreading through their interstices into unexplored miles of space.†
Chpt 31-33 *
- The vision of Oak kneeling down that night recurred to her, and with the imitative instinct which animates women she seized upon the idea, resolved to kneel, and, if possible, pray.†
Chpt 43-45
- Fanny's own spirit seemed to be animating her frame.†
Chpt 43-45 *
- Men were shouting, dogs were barking, with greatest animation, but the thronging travellers in so long a journey had grown nearly indifferent to such terrors, though they still bleated piteously at the unwontedness of their experiences, a tall shepherd rising here and there in the midst of them, like a gigantic idol amid a crowd of prostrate devotees.†
Chpt 49-51
- Her looks were calm and nearly rigid, like a slightly animated bust of Melpomene.†
Chpt 52-54
Definitions:
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(animate as in: animate v. inanimate) alive; or (more rarely) an animal--not a plant; or (more rarely still) the degree to which as an animal feels and thinkseditor's notes: This sense of animate is typically contrasted with inanimate. The adjective animate describes something as being alive--such as a dog. The adjective inanimate describes something as not being alive--such as a rock.
Note that this sense of animate is pronounced differently than other senses. Most senses whether used as a noun or an adjective) rhyme with mate, but this sense rhymes more closely with mutt".
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(animate as in: animated by her strong belief) inspire, make more lively, or bring to life