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Inanimate Objects the study of inanimate things. the assignment to inanimate objects, forces, and plants of personalities and wills, but not souls. — animatistic, adj. the apparently perverse or spiteful behavior of inanimate objects. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Hem believes that in the visible world there are void places-- vacua, and something more--holes, as it were, through which animate and inanimate objects may fall into the invisible world and be seen and heard no more. It is strange how inanimate objects will twine themselves into our affections, especially in the hour of affliction. It was a typical summer evening in June, the atmosphere being in such delicate equilibrium and so transmissive that inanimate objects seemed endowed with two or three senses, if not five. |
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