Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having the power of giving life or spirit.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Having the power of giving life or spirit.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Tending to animate; causing animation.

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Examples

  • This, he argued, would enable the matter of the embryo to undergo development and become "apt" for the reception of an immortal soul from God by passing through simpler initial stages involving “vegetative” and “animative” souls.

    Do Embryos Have Souls? de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • This, he argued, would enable the matter of the embryo to undergo development and become "apt" for the reception of an immortal soul from God by passing through simpler initial stages involving “vegetative” and “animative” souls.

    Archive 2008-05-11 de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • Vegetative, animative, rational-and then what else?

    A Canticle for Leibowitz Miller, Walter M. 1959

  • Therefore, our business must be with him as the final, ultimate, animative Object of our religion; and that designing duty to him and felicity to ourselves, we have to do with him as the

    The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI. 1630-1705 1822

  • Feel free to add IsraCast's animative buttons to your website!

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  • Feel free to add IsraCast's animative buttons to your website!

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