Word Meanings - EXANIMATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Lifeless; dead. "Carcasses exanimate." Spenser. 2. Destitute of animation; spiritless; disheartened. "Pale . . . wretch, exanimate by love." Thomson.

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• LIFELESS
  Destitute of life, or deprived of life; not containing, or inhabited by, living beings or vegetation; dead, or apparently dead; spiritless; powerless; dull; as, a lifeless carcass; lifeless matter; a lifeless desert; a lifeless wine; a lifeless
• DISHEARTENMENT
  Discouragement; dejection; depression of spirits.
• EXANIMATE
  1. Lifeless; dead. "Carcasses exanimate." Spenser. 2. Destitute of animation; spiritless; disheartened. "Pale . . . wretch, exanimate by love." Thomson.
• WRETCHEDLY
  In a wretched manner; miserably; despicable.
• ANIMATION
  1. The act of animating, or giving life or spirit; the state of being animate or alive. The animation of the same soul quickening the whole frame. Bp. Hall. Perhaps an inanimate thing supplies me, while I am speaking, with whatever I posses of
• THOMSONIANISM
  An empirical system which assumes that the human body is composed of four elements, earth, air, fire, and water, and that vegetable medicines alone should be used; -- from the founder, Dr. Samuel Thomson, of Massachusetts.
• DISHEARTEN
  To discourage; to deprive of courage and hope; to depress the spirits of; to deject. Regiments . . . utterly disorganized and disheartened. Macaulay. Syn. -- To dispirit; discourage; depress; deject; deter; terrify.
• DESTITUTENESS
  Destitution. Ash.
• DESTITUTE
  1. Forsaken; not having in possession (something necessary, or desirable); deficient; lacking; devoid; -- often followed by of. In thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute. Ps. cxli. 8. Totally destitute of all shadow of influence. Burke.
• THOMSON PROCESS
  A process of electric welding in which heat is developed by a large current passing through the metal.
• WRETCH
  wretch, fr. wrecan to drive out, punish; properly, an exile, one driven out, akin to AS. wræc an exile, OS. wrekkio a stranger, OHG. 1. A miserable person; one profoundly unhappy. "The wretch that lies in woe." Shak. Hovered thy spirit o'er thy
• DESTITUTELY
  In destitution.
• SPENSERIAN
  Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faërie Queene."
• SPIRITLESS
  1. Destitute of spirit; wanting animation; wanting cheerfulness; dejected; depressed. 2. Destitute of vigor; wanting life, courage, or fire. A men so faint, so spiritless, So dull, so dead in lock, so woebegone. Shak. 3. Having no breath; extinct;
• WRETCHFUL
  Wretched. Wyclif.
• WRETCHEDNESS
  1. The quality or state of being wretched; utter misery. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. A wretched object; anything despicably. Eat worms and such wretchedness. Chaucer.
• WRETCHLESS
  Reckless; hence, disregarded. -- Wretch"less*ly, adv. -- Wretch"less*ness, n. Bk. of Com. Prayer. Your deaf ears should listen Unto the wretchless clamors of the poor. J. Webster.
• WRETCHED
  1. Very miserable; sunk in, or accompanied by, deep affliction or distress, as from want, anxiety, or grief; calamitous; woeful; very afflicting. "To what wretched state reserved!" Milton. O cruel! Death! to those you are more kind Than to the
• THOMSONITE
  A zeolitic mineral, occurring generally in masses of a radiated structure. It is a hydrous silicate of aluminia, lime, and soda. Called also mesole, and comptonite.
• THOMSONIAN
  Of or pertaining to Thomsonianism. -- n.
• INANIMATION
  Want of animation; lifeless; dullness.
• REANIMATION
  The act or operation of reanimating, or the state of being reanimated; reinvigoration; revival.
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
• EXANIMATION
  Deprivation of life or of spirits. Bailey.
• DISANIMATION
  1. Privation of life. Sir T. Browne. 2. The state of being disanimated or discouraged; depression of spirits.
• TRANSANIMATION
  The conveyance of a soul from one body to another. Fuller.