Middle English Dictionary Entry
animāt adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | animāt adj. |
| Etymology | L ppl. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Animate, living (as opp. to inanimate); (b) ~ membres, the organs mediating movement, perception, and thought [cp. vertu animal]; (c) ~ vertu = vertu animal.
Associated quotations
a
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)51a/b : [Woundes] made of bodiez inanimate, as swerd..Or of animate, as of puncture of venenous bestez.
- c1475 Court Sap.(Trin-C R.3.21)1126 : Good watyr, that noble element..Hys dropes swete eke byn most nutrytyf And cause of lyfe to eche thyng animate.
b
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)7b/b : He made..4 locions. In þe first war treted membrez nutritiuez..In þe 2a spirituale membrez, in þe 3a animate membrez [*Ch.(2): the membres of lyf; L membra animata].
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)10a/b : Þe pot of þe heued after þe philosophre is seid þat hery part in which þe animate membres be contened.
c
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)78a/a : Wakinge is nouȝt elles but from schedinge of spiritis in to þe lymes of felynge and of meuynge and doinge; þe worchinge of þe animat vertu [So Tol; L animalis virtutis] in þe body.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc. (sense (b)), see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. animate member.