Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To animate mutually.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To animate or inspire mutually.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
animate orinspire mutually .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Zen Buddhism, which emphasizes meditative self-emptying as a harmonizing end sufficient unto itself, offers an equally generative alternative context for helping readers understand the practical dynamics of the interanimate oneness at work in voidist documents and acts.
Shelley's Golden Wind: Zen Harmonics in _A Defence of Poetry_ and 'Ode to the WestWind' 2007
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The meditative enactment described by Dogen, which appears like a movement from self to non-self, is in essence an opening upon an original interanimate oneness that is always here and that, again in Dogen's words, "continues on without end"
Shelley's Golden Wind: Zen Harmonics in _A Defence of Poetry_ and 'Ode to the WestWind' 2007
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Yet, although "Hart-Leap Well" does in some sense represent an ecological interpenetration of cultural and natural observances "how the conventionally antagonistic 'cultural' and 'natural' may in fact felicitously interanimate" (Kroeber 55) the poem ultimately presents a picture less of human-animal felicity than of struggle, at least of past struggle.
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