interanimate
To animate or inspire mutually.
Adjective
- Occurring as or involving interactions between separate consciousnesses.
- Meanwhile, however, classicism had kept alive the imagination of an interanimate cosmos: of the land and the sea as gods and as comprising hosts of minor local deities; of humans as children of gods; of natural...
- Before going on to show the relationship of tactile-kinesthetic invariants and iconicity to analogical thinking, I would like to interpose a question alluded to earlier: how are new interanimate meanings minted? - 2004,...
- Deepened understandings of responsivity, of its basis in both comsigns and interchangeability, and of the basis of comsigns and interchangeability in species-specific kinetic/tactile-kinesthetic invariants, provide the...
- Mutually affecting; tending to interanimate.
- If we agree with Pat Hartwell's statement that thinking and writing are interanimate, then we cannot help but address thinking when we speak of writing . - 1992, Linda Bannister, Writing Apprehension and Anti-writing,...
- The interaction of discourses is dynamic, interdependent, "interanimate," and "interilluminating." - 1994, George Kalamaras, Reclaiming the Tacit Dimension, page 26:
- In chapter five, the applied chapter, I show how ecological and prima facie formalist and aesthetic values are interanimate and therefore inseparable. - 2006, Heather Lea Wainwright, New Paradigms in Aesthetics: The...
Origin
From inter- + animate.
Verb
- To animate or inspire mutually.
- When love, with another so Interanimates two souls - a. 1631, John Donne, The Ecstasy:
- These voices compete, interanimate (penetrate and inform), and change over time. - 1996, Jennifer L. Troutner, Language, Culture, and Politics: English in China, 1840s-1990s, page 45:
- The third space enables new meanings to be generated as the diverse voices of the official script and unofficial counterscript interanimate. - 2006, Jos van den Linden, Peter Renshaw, Dialogic Learning, page 92: