deanimalizing

Verb

deanimalize (third-person singular simple present deanimalizes, present participle deanimalizing, simple past and past participle deanimalized)

1. To make less like an animal or less full of animals.
   • He also acknowledged that if, according to the latter-day convictions of Joshua, the only proper and real object of worship was the True, the Beautiful, and the Good, as embodied in the lives and works of men, the tendency of such worship was to deanimalize them, to lift them up into a state in...1892, Hans Stevenson Beattie, Joshua Wray, page 181