Definition of Animalic

1. Adjective. (rare) of or concerning animals ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Animalic

1. animal [adj] - See also: animal

Lexicographical Neighbors of Animalic

animal toxin
animal trainer
animal virus
animal viruses
animal welfare
animalcula
animalcular
animalcules
animalculist
animalculists
animalculum
animalian
animalic (current term)
animalier
animaliers
animalike
animalisation
animalise
animalised cell
animalish
animalism
animalisms
animalist
animalistic
animalists
animalities
animality

Literary usage of Animalic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Practical Treatise on the Manufacture of Starch, Glucose, Starch-sugar by Julius Frankel, Ladislaus von Wágner (1881)
"Relation of Starch to Diastase, Gluten, animalic Liquids, etc.—Exactly in the same manner as diluted acids act, in a higher temperature, on starch, ..."

2. The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality by Rudolf Schmid (1885)
"... and he convincingly shows, in his essay on "Darwin's Doctrine," that the embryos never represent a former animalic form, but that their development ..."

3. The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Morris Jastrow (1898)
"They are able to penetrate into the body of men, and thus produce similar physical and mental disturbances as the animalic ..."

4. Studies in Judaism: Second Series by Solomon Schechter (1908)
"... functions as were declared by other religions as distinctly animalic, can with the saint be elevated into moments of worship and religious exaltation. ..."

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