animastic

animastic

English

Etymology

From Latin animus (“the mind, in a great variety of meanings: the rational soul in man, intellect, consciousness, will, intention, courage, spirit, sensibility, feeling, passion, pride, vehemence, wrath, etc., the breath, life, soul”), closely related to anima, which is a feminine form; see anima.

Adjective

animastic (comparative more animastic, superlative most animastic)

1. (rare) Pertaining to or possessing an animate nonphysical nature; having a mental or spiritual nature.
   • 1816, Thomas Taylor, "A Dissertation on the Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries," The Pamphleteer, vol. 8, no. 15, p. 66:

     But we employ fables in an animastic mode, when we contemplate the energies of the soul.

2. Relating to mind or spirit; spiritual.

References

• Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.

Anagrams

• animatics