Animalian
Full definition of animalian
Adjective
- (rare) of an animal or animals
- 1998, Sayre N. Greenfield, The Ends of Allegory, University of Delaware Press, ISBN 0874136709, page 142 http://books.google.com/books?id=DZ77QVDOacAC&pg=PA142&dq=animalian:To give an instance from the animalian side of Linnaeus's efforts, he may have classified the swift (Hirundo apus) and the swallow (Hirundo rustica) together because of general similarity....
- 1999, Anne Rice, , 2001 edition, ISBN 9780345422392, page 121 http://books.google.com/books?id=TKeTE7iaevsC&pg=PA121&dq=animalian:We stood before the Lord in the high-backed chair, and I saw that the wood figures of his regal throne were, of course, animalian, feline and diabolical.
- (rare) like that of an animal or animals
- 1982, Anne Rice, , 1995 edition, ISBN 0345396936, page 78 http://books.google.com/books?id=uxd4r90RMsgC&pg=PA78&dq=animalian:He did not look at her because he did not wish to see that deliciously animalian slit of her mouth, naked and red, beneath the white mask that made her eyes look so feline.
- 2007, Lynn Stegner, Because a Fire Was in My Head, University of Nebraska Press, ISBN 0803207638, page 202 http://books.google.com/books?id=kJ8lCtYvoboC&pg=PA202&dq=animalian:His big hands clutched him about the collar of the suit that had once been fine, and he was shaking him with animalian violence, shoving him....
