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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 An·i·mal·ize v. t. [imp. & p. p. Animalized p. pr. & vb. n. 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.   --Coleridge.