Part 453

<i>Wesley.</i>

<syn>Syn. -- Stricture; criticism; censure; reproof; blame; comment.</syn>

<h1>Animadversive</h1> <Xpage=58>

<hw>An`i*mad*ver"sive</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Having the power of perceiving; percipient.</def> <mark>[Archaic]</mark>

<i>Glanvill.</i>

<blockquote>I do not mean there is a certain number of ideas glaring and shining to the <b>animadversive</b> faculty. <i>Coleridge.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Animadvert</h1> <Xpage=58>

<hw>An`i*mad*vert"</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Animadverted</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Animadverting</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[L. <ets>animadvertere</ets>; <ets>animus</ets> mind + <ets>advertere</ets> to turn to; <ets>ad</ets> to + <ets>vertere</ets> to turn.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To take notice; to observe; -- commonly followed by <i>that</i>.</def>

<i>Dr. H. More.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To consider or remark by way of criticism or censure; to express censure; -- with <i>on</i> or <i>upon</i>.</def>

<blockquote>I should not <b>animadvert</b> on him . . . if he had not used extreme severity in his judgment of the incomparable Shakespeare. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To take cognizance judicially; to inflict punishment.</def> <mark>[Archaic]</mark>

<i>Grew.</i>

<syn>Syn. -- To remark; comment; criticise; censure.</syn>

<h1>Animadverter</h1> <Xpage=58>

<hw>An`i*mad*vert"er</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who animadverts; a censurer; also <mark>[Obs.]</mark>, a chastiser.</def>

<h1>Animal</h1> <Xpage=58>

<hw>An"i*mal</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L., fr. <ets>anima</ets> breath, soul: cf. F. <ets>animal</ets>. See <er>Animate</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity or stomach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process of respiration; and by increasing in motive power or active aggressive force with progress to maturity.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>One of the lower animals; a brute or beast, as distinguished from man; <as>as, men and <ex>animals</ex></as>.</def>

<h1>Animal</h1> <Xpage=58>

<hw>An"i*mal</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>animal</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Of or relating to animals; <as>as, <ex>animal</ex> functions</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Pertaining to the merely sentient part of a creature, as distinguished from the intellectual, rational, or spiritual part; <as>as, the <ex>animal</ex> passions or appetites</as>.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Consisting of the flesh of animals; <as>as, <ex>animal</ex> food</as>.</def>

<cs><col>Animal magnetism</col>. <cd>See <er>Magnetism</er> and <er>Mesmerism</er>.</cd> -- <col>Animal electricity</col>, <cd>the electricity developed in some animals, as the electric eel, torpedo, etc.</cd> -- <col>Animal flower</col> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld>, <cd>a name given to certain marine animals resembling a flower, as any species of actinia or sea anemone, and other Anthozoa, hydroids, starfishes, etc.</cd> -- <col>Animal heat</col> <fld>(Physiol.)</fld>, <cd>the heat generated in the body of a living animal, by means of which the animal is kept at nearly a uniform temperature.</cd> -- <col>Animal spirits</col>. <cd>See under <er>Spirit</er>.</cd> -- <col>Animal kingdom</col>, <cd>the whole class of beings endowed with animal life. It embraces several subkingdoms, and under these there are Classes, Orders, Families, Genera, Species, and sometimes intermediate groupings, all in regular subordination, but variously arranged by different writers.</cd></cs> <note>The following are the grand divisions, or subkingdoms, and the principal classes under them, generally recognized at the present time: -

<er>Vertebrata</er>, including <spn>Mammalia</spn> or <i>Mammals</i>, <spn>Aves</spn> or <i>Birds</i>, <spn>Reptilia</spn>, <spn>Amphibia</spn>, <spn>Pisces</spn> or <i>Fishes</i>, <spn>Marsipobranchiata</spn> (<spn>Craniota</spn>); and <spn>Leptocardia</spn> (<spn>Acrania</spn>).

<er>Tunicata</er>, including the <spn>Thaliacea</spn>, and <spn>Ascidioidea</spn> or <i>Ascidians</i>.

<er>Articulata</er> or <er>Annulosa</er>, including <spn>Insecta</spn>, <spn>Myriapoda</spn>, <spn>Malacapoda</spn>, <spn>Arachnida</spn>, <spn>Pycnogonida</spn>, <spn>Merostomata</spn>, <spn>Crustacea</spn> (<spn>Arthropoda</spn>); and <spn>Annelida</spn>, <spn>Gehyrea</spn> (<spn>Anarthropoda</spn>).

<er>Helminthes</er> or <er>Vermes</er>, including <spn>Rotifera</spn>, <spn>Ch\'91tognatha</spn>, <spn>Nematoidea</spn>, <spn>Acanthocephala</spn>, <spn>Nemertina</spn>, <spn>Turbellaria</spn>, <spn>Trematoda</spn>, <spn>Cestoidea</spn>, <spn>Mesozea</spn>.