animate being

Instead they seemed momentarily arrested in their dancing as animate beings.

Entire regions are the homes of such animated beings.

A golem is an artificial animated being in medieval and Jewish folklore.

The work was on the submolecular level, the very bases on animate being.

Some considered that Islam prohibits the depiction of animate beings in paintings and drawings.

All Bantu languages have a noun class specifically for humans (sometimes including other animate beings).

His pages are populated by all kinds of animated beings: humans, animals and acutely observed ordinary objects.

In Jewish folklore a Golem is an animated being created entirely from inanimate matter.

In a language with explicit inflections for gender, it is easy to express the natural gender of animate beings.

The most widespread system, however, has four classes: male, female, animate beings and certain objects, and finally a class for the remaining nouns.

"Interestingly, it seems to be easier to match people with cars than people with animate beings like dogs.

Could any man be expected to look unmoved for the first time upon the claw-marks of animate beings from outer depths of space?

He can also animate beings of ice and snow, like the icapede and snowman soldiers.

Animism is described as the belief in spirits inhabiting and animating beings, or souls existing in things.

The entire atmosphere was charged to the utmost with electricity, the presence of which sent a thrill through the whole nervous system of all animated beings.

When the eyes are closed, fantastically vivid images appear: first geometrical forms and then landscapes, buildings, animate beings, and symbolic objects.

Nouns beginning with m- in the singular and wa- in the plural denote animate beings, especially people.

The distinction applies to nouns which refer to animate beings as well as those which refer to inanimate objects.

This would imply an analogy with a variation of interpretation when, for instance, the pronoun they is used; it may refer to animate beings, or to objects.

Mos is used for when a person or animate being subject tries to accomplish an action, that is, begins and is unable to finish it successfully.

He states: "GEB is a very personal attempt to say how it is that animate beings can come out of inanimate matter.

Ido has the masculine infix -ul and the feminine infix -in for animate beings.

And Muhammed himself attacked the forces and caravans of the Koreish; he shed blood, nay, with his own hand put to death animated beings.

The Maharal is the subject of a nineteenth-century legend that he created The Golem of Prague, an animate being fashioned from clay.

Nominals corresponding to animate beings tend not to be marked with Locative case; Genitive is preferred for such constructions as yarramangan 'on the horse' (lit.