a. and sb. Obs. rare. [ad. L. animānt-em breathing, living, pr. pple. of animāre: see ANIMATE.]
A. adj. Having life, living; animated.
1678. Cudworth, Intell. Syst., 514. Ut sit Animans, That it be Animant, or endued with Life, Sense, and Understanding. Ibid., 512. He that acknowledges no Animant God … acknowledges no God at all.
B. sb. A living creature, an animal.
1677. Gale, Crt. Gentiles, II. IV. 447. There is no other cause of life to us men and other Animants.
