"animate" meaning in Middle English

See animate in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /aniˈmaːt/ Forms: animat [alternative]
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  1. Animate, alive; showing the signs or symptoms of life. Categories (lifeform): Lifeforms
    Sense id: en-animate-enm-adj-F10yYqW~ Disambiguation of Lifeforms: 63 37 Categories (other): Middle English entries with etymon, Middle English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Middle English entries with etymon: 61 39 Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 66 34
  2. Related to the soul or spirit of a living being (i.e. sentience or sapience).
    Sense id: en-animate-enm-adj-gJluW7g-

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Middle English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-10-25 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-10-01 using wiktextract (f9fe161 and 6f96ddf). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.