单词 | semi-animate |
释义 | semi-ˈanimate, a. [f. semi- + animate a., after L. sēmianimis, -us.] Half-alive. Also fig.
1815Kirby & Sp. Entomol. (1818) I. 58 Should your greenhouse be infested with Aphides, or your grapery by the Semianimate Coccus. 1887Pall Mall Gaz. 27 May 1/1 There are Bills before Parliament... They will remain in their present semi-animate condition. 1908Saintsbury in Cambr. Hist. Eng. Lit. II. 209 The semi-animate condition of the final -e. So semi-ˈanimated a.
1886P. Robinson Teetotum Trees 96 A cloudy day [will] tempt them out for a semi-animated inspection of the world. |

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