a. [f. prec. + -IC.] Of or belonging to animism or animists.
1871. Tylor, Prim. Cult., I. 268. Its animistic development [i.e., of mythology] falls within a broader generalization still.
1876. Academy, 4 Nov., 451/1. The animistic religions of the Naturvölker, of the Mexicans and Peruvians, and of the Finns.
1880. Goldw. Smith, in Atl. Month., No. 268. 213/1. The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has become so entangled with animistic fancies, [etc.].
1881. Huxley, in Nature, No. 615. 344/1. The essence of modern, as contrasted with ancient, physiological science, appears to me to lie in its antagonism to animistic hypotheses and animistic phraseology.
1882. E. F. im Thurn, in Jrnl. Anthrop. Inst., XI. 373. The simple animistic belief in the continued existence of the spirit after the separation of the body.
