exanimous
English
Etymology
From Latin exanimus, exanimis; ex (“out, without”) + anima (“life”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɪɡˈzænɪməs/, /ɛkˈsænɪməs/
Adjective
exanimous (comparative more exanimous, superlative most exanimous)
- (obsolete) lifeless; dead
- 1805, Samuel Latham Mitchill, editor, The Medical Repository:
- those exanimous and moribund bodies
References
- “exanimous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.