animated, ppl. a.
(ˈænɪmeɪtɪd)
[f. prec. + -ed.]
Commonly used as pa. pple of vb. animate; but also as equivalent to adj. animate.
1. a. Endowed with life; living, alive. animated nature: that portion of Nature which is alive; the animal world.
| 1534 More On the Passion Wks. 1557, 1324/2 Thys is..not my deade body, but animated and lyuinge with my soule. 1615 Crooke Body of Man 608 It is a thing Animated or hauing a life of it owne. 1774 Goldsm. (title) History of the Earth and Animated Nature. 1784 Cowper Task i. 198 Nature inanimate employs sweet sounds, But animated nature sweeter still. 1858 R. Vaughan Ess. & Rev. i. 34 The belief that the heavenly bodies were animated natures. |
b. Peopled or ‘alive’ with living beings.
| 1827 Montgomery Pelican Isl. ii. 106 The expanse of animated waters. |
c. fig. Of things vividly figured: appearing alive.
| 1711 Pope Temp. Fame 73 Heroes in animated marble frown, And legislators seem to think in stone. 1813 Theatr. Inquisitor II. 184 Correct and animated pictures of existing manners..are always gratifying. 1826 Disraeli Viv. Grey vi. vi. 345 Mine are all animated pictures. See that cypress, waving from the breeze. |
d. Of or pertaining to cinematographic animation or ‘moving pictures’, esp. to cinema cartoons.
| [1895 Cassell's Fam. Mag. Mar. 320/1 The handle is turned..so as to move the series of photographs rapidly past the eyes, and give the impression of a single animated portrait.] 1897 C. M. Hepworth Animated Photogr. xii. 93 For animated photograph work it [sc. the ‘Stigmatic’ lens] can be made with an aperture of f/2. Ibid. xiii. 94 On taking animated photographs. 1903 Westm. Gaz. 28 Aug. 8/2 The America Cup race will be shown by animated pictures. 1912 [see next]. 1915 Harper's Wkly. 11 Dec. 574/3 Even cartoons began to come in—‘animated’ cartoons, as they are called. 1921 A. C. Lescarboura Cinema Handbk. (1922) xiv. 435 The basis of animated cartoons, animated models or so-called mechanigraphs, animated sculpture and so on is the fact that one frame can be exposed at a time with the usual motion picture camera. 1934 Discovery Feb. 50/2 The animated picture is that of a continuously repeated cycle of effects. 1935 R. Macaulay Pers. Pleasures 135 There is a news reel on;..troops walk past with that jerky gait peculiar to animated photography. 1960 Times 11 Feb. 3/4 Up to about 1950 the animated film all over the world was dominated by the influence of Disney. |
2. Full of the activity and motion of life; enlivened, quickened; spirited; lively, vivacious.
| 1585 Abp. Sandys Serm. (1841) 63 The little cubs perhaps are animated by reason of their wiliness. 1708 Pope St. Cecilia's Day 28 Warriors she fires with animated sounds. 1824 Dibdin Libr. Comp. 99 Barbier's animated and excellent account of it. 1855 Prescott Philip II, I. ii. x. 254 The discussion was animated. 1859 Reeve Brittany 236 The scene was one of the most animated we had met with. |
3. Mentally moved or excited; inspired, actuated, incited, encouraged. (Now mostly participial.)
| 1532 More Confut. Tindale Wks. 1557, 512/1 Anymated and instructed..with his owne spirite. 1614 Raleigh Hist. World II. v. iv. §1. 502 They departed home rich, and well animated to returne agayne. 1660 Milton Free Commw. 445 The Menaces, the Insultings of our newly animated common enemies. 1740 Somerville Hobbinol ii. 194 Incens'd With animated Rage. 1816 Scott Old Mort. 100 Desperate men, animated by the presence of two or three of the actors in the primate's murder. 1850 Smiles Self Help ii. 41 He worked..animated by the determination to excel. |
† 4. Endowed with some active physical property. Obs.
| 1706 Phillips, Animated needle, is one touch'd with a Loadstone. 1751 Chambers Cycl., Animated mercury, quicksilver impregnated with some subtile and spirituous particles, so as to render it capable of growing hot when mingled with gold. |
† 5. Pertaining to animated beings; animal. Obs.
| 1753 Chambers Cycl. Supp. s.v., A system of animated pathology. |