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Definition of Animalist
1. Noun. one who believes in the dominance of man's animal nature in behavior. ¹
2. Noun. a sensualist. ¹
3. Noun. one who believes that microorganisms cause disease. ¹
4. Noun. a writer of animal stories. ¹
5. Noun. a painter or sculptor whose primary subject is animals. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Animalist
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Animalist
Literary usage of Animalist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"Now in Wilson the animalist is apparently and in outward show predominant, ...
The pure animalist, the pure sentimentalist, and the pure cynic are alike ..."
2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1870)
"... In simple verse, that time has kindly spar'd, Has sung it; and in style uncouth,
The pious rural animalist has penn'd The fearful story. ..."
3. The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha by Miguel de ( Cervantes Saavedra, Henry Edward Watts (1888)
"He is the animalist as opposed to the idealist. " Put him and his master together,
and they form a perfect intellect; but they are separated and without ..."
4. The History of American Sculpture by Lorado Taft (1903)
"... where he remained for five years studying, not with an " animalist," as might
have been expected, but with Puech and ..."
5. Belgium: A Personal Narrative by Brand Whitlock (1919)
"... who has done the Yser and the Belgian littoral in such broad, dashing style;
and Geo. Bernier, the animalist, and van Zevenbergen and Philippe ..."
6. The Journal of Speculative Philosophy: Ed. by Wm. T. Harris edited by William Torrey Harris (1893)
""But no Atheist ever acknowledged conscious animality to be a first principle in
the universe ; nor that the whole was governed by any animalist, sentient, ..."
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