But if mere human beings can have this "personal influence," as it is called, over each others' characters, if even inanimate things, if they be beautiful, can have itwhat must be the personal influence of our Lord Jesus Christ?

The objects of poetic imitation, Aristotle says, are character, emotion, and deed, i.e., men in action, inanimate nature and the life of dumb animals being subordinate to these.

There are two classes of adjectives, one of which applies to animate, the other to inanimate objects.

He tells us that living beings have been subdivided from the earliest times into animated beings, which possess sense and motion, and inanimated beings, which are devoid of these functions and simply vegetate.

It is an interesting thought, that will occur to a contemplative mind, that the world contained, from the time when it was a nebulous mass, all the materials of the future individuals of the animate and inanimate creation,that the elaborate creatures of the vegetable and animal kingdoms, as well as every mineral, were floating in amorphous masses through space.

Later on, Leontinus, a Byzantine writer of the sixth century, in a treatise devoted to showing the efficacy of certain forms and processes in imparting virtue to inanimate matter, instances as well known the malevolence inherent in the thirty pieces of silver of Judas, which carry ruin wherever they go.

When nouns inanimate proper are used, or objects of a non-vital character, the corresponding verb is atta.

"Which have reference to inanimate substances, in which sex has no existence.

Poetry did only ascribe to inanimate creatures the art and design of the Creator, who does everything in them.

[inanimate things that hiss] tea kettle, pressure cooker; air valve, pressure release valve, safety valve, tires, air escaping from tires, punctured tire; escaping steam, steam, steam radiator, steam release valve.

These freaks of nature are equally extended to animate as to inanimate bodies; and the human species, as well as the brute creation, affords numerous specimens, not only of redundance and deficiency in her work, but a variety of other phenomena not well understood.

Poetry did only ascribe to inanimate creatures the art and design of the Creator, who does everything in them.

No one could suspect from her quiet and controlled manner, and her apparently inanimate though beautiful features, that she was as enthusiastic in mind and in the delights of the Opera as her cousin Emmeline.

In the following example, "he" and "she" are converted into verbs; as "thou" sometimes is, in the writings of Shakspeare, and others: "Is it not an impulse of selfishness or of a depraved nature to he and she inanimate objects?"Cutler's English Gram., p. 16.