disanimate

Verb

disanimate (third-person singular simple present disanimates, present participle disanimating, simple past and past participle disanimated)

1. (transitive) To deprive of life.
   • That soul and life , that is now fled and gone from a lifeless carcass , is only a loss to that particular body or compages of matter , which by means thereof is now disanimated1678, R[alph] Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: […]...
2. (transitive) To deprive of spirit; to dishearten.
   • Now will it best avail your majesty
     To cross the seas and to be crown'd in France:
     The presence of a king engenders love
     Amongst his subjects and his loyal friends,
     As it disanimates his enemies.1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...