The word animistic should have been animalistic ... by.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Lipstick on a Pig Campaign Metaphor; McCain's Biggest Staff Budget-- Make-up Artist] Reference

An entirely different class of ideas, also termed animistic, is the belief in the world soul, held by Plato, Schelling and others.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1] Reference

The animistic force is benevolent when it comes to my car.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nature Of Things] Reference

Perhaps here, that tendency found a more ... animistic ... expression.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Hearts and Three Lions]

The animistic, pantheistic imagery was only a language for saying that.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boat of a Million Years]

On the other hand monadology (Leibnitz) has also been termed animistic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1] Reference

What I tried to present as accurately as I could was an animistic world view.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Interview with Mischa Berlinski] Reference

According to this view, the majority of superstitious fancies are of animistic origin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference

They had animistic religious beliefs; nature's objects were revered, some even deified.    From Wordnik.com.  [6. Korea, to 540 C.E] Reference

What other mythical or animistic images does the book offer, and what is their purpose?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier: Questions] Reference

Against this view may be urged the fact that our own children talk in an animistic fashion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference

Most of those animistic spirits have faded from memory, as my race has faded from the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cold Copper Tears]

Roman Catholic 25\%, Muslim 15\% note: animistic beliefs and practices strongly influence the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference

These coexisted with other indigenous religions, which were predominantly animistic in nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction] Reference

The local people are Lobas, fierce animistic warriors who were converted to Buddhism by early lamas.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Quest Of Shangri-La] Reference

Roman Catholic 25\%, Muslim 15\%, other 11\% note: animistic beliefs and practices strongly influence the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2001 CIA World Factbook] Reference

Its whole significance lies in the persistence of animistic modes of thinking under civilised conditions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative] Reference

Thus after being declared a disease of language, a naïve animistic creation, a playful and debasing fancy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

He believed himself actually to be living in a world governed by living and personal powers, an animistic world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference

It's animistic to run around stealing shiny objects and wanting to do cool, yet pointless things, just for the feeling.    From Wordnik.com.  [MIND MELD: Is Science Fiction Responsible for the Lack of Public Interest in Space Exploration?] Reference

It consists of animistic, theological and dualistic habits of thought, issuing in utopianism and non-materialistic idealism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Socialism: Positive and Negative] Reference

Kony preaches a blend of fundamentalist Christianity, mixed with African animistic beliefs, including the practice of witchcraft.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 16, 2004] Reference

It occurred to him that if thinking so was childish, animistic, and all things Piaget, life was more meaningful with this chimera.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Apostate: Nawin of Thais] Reference

All over the world agricultural peoples practise elaborate ceremonies explicable, as Mannhardt has shown, on animistic principles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1] Reference

Even animistic-minded I got awfully sat upon the other day in Cameroon by a superior but kindred spirit, in the form of a First Engineer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in West Africa] Reference

During the Renaissance, aided by the resur - gence of animistic theories of nature, it reached, if anything, a high point in its fortunes.    From Wordnik.com.  [SPONTANEOUS GENERATION] Reference