animastic

English

Etymology

From Latin animus (“mind”) +‎ -astic.

Adjective

animastic (comparative more animastic, superlative most animastic)

  1. (rare) Pertaining to or possessing an animate nonphysical nature; having a mental or spiritual nature.
    • 1816, Thomas Taylor, “A Dissertation on the Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries,”, in The Pamphleteer, volume 8, number 15, page 66:
      But we employ fables in an animastic mode, when we contemplate the energies of the soul.
  2. Relating to mind or spirit; spiritual.

References

  • Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.

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