Animalize v. t. (past & past part. animalized; pres. part. animalizing)
1.
To endow with the properties of an animal; to represent in animal form.
2.
To convert into animal matter by the processes of assimilation.
3.
To render animal or sentient; to reduce to the state of a lower animal; to sensualize. "The unconscious irony of the Epicurean poet on the animalizing tendency of his own philosophy."
... in physiology better established than that hard labor, followed from day to day and year to year, absorbing every thought and every physical energy, has the direct tendency to depress the intellect, blunt the sensibilities, and animalize the man. In such a life, all the energies of the brain and nervous system are directed to the support of nutrition and the stimulation of the muscular system. Man thus becomes a beast of burden,—the creature of his ... — Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Issue 10, August, 1858 • Various
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