disanimate

dis- +‎ animate

disanimate (third-person singular simple present disanimates, present participle disanimating, simple past and past participle disanimated)

1. (transitive) To deprive of life.
   • 1678, R[alph] Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: […] Richard Royston, […], →OCLC:

     That soul and life , that is now fled and gone from a lifeless carcass , is only a loss to that particular body or compages of matter , which by means thereof is now disanimated

2. (transitive) To deprive of spirit; to dishearten.
   • 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:

     Now will it best avail your majesty
     To cross the seas and to be crown'd in France:
     The presence of a king engenders love
     Amongst his subjects and his loyal friends,
     As it disanimates his enemies.

“disanimate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• mediastina

disanimate

1. inflection of disanimare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

disanimate f pl

1. feminine plural of disanimato

• disamenità, disaminate, inamidaste