animastic

Pertaining to or possessing an animate nonphysical nature; having a mental or spiritual nature.

Adjective

  1. Pertaining to or possessing an animate nonphysical nature; having a mental or spiritual nature.
    • But we employ fables in an animastic mode, when we contemplate the energies of the soul. - 1816, Thomas Taylor, “A Dissertation on the Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries,”, in The Pamphleteer, volume 8, number 15, page 66:
  2. Relating to mind or spirit; spiritual.

Origin

From Latin animasticus, from Latin animus + Latin -asticus. By surface analysis, animus + -astic.

Forms

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