animalization

English

Alternative forms

• animalisation

Etymology

Compare French animalisation.

Noun

animalization (countable and uncountable, plural animalizations)

1. The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties.
2. 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

the act of endowing with animal properties

• Portuguese: animalização (pt) f

conversion into animal matter by the process of assimilation

• Portuguese: animalização (pt) f

References

“animalization”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.