Crossword clues for animistic
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Animistic \An`i*mis"tic\, a.
Of or pertaining to animism.
--Huxley. Tylor.
Wiktionary
a. Of or pertaining to animism.
WordNet
adj. of or pertaining to the doctrine of animism [syn: animist]
Usage examples of "animistic".
She held animistic beliefs and was positive that everything from the moon and seasons and winds to the trees and mountains and lakes had its own individual personality.
Lots of tradition, lots of ritual, pantheistic, animistic, neopagan for the most part.
They recognized that such animistic beliefs concerning matter could imply that the death of the human body implies the disappearance of the soul.
Steve found it easy to believe in Ukko and the old gods, and how the ancient Finns had hit upon their animistic song magic that was able, by some revision of the natural vibration patterns of space and matter, some cosmic alchemy, to change things.
Finns, with the old Kalevala animistic deities still spinning in their genes.
While Islam is the dominant religion of the islands, Bali has retained its Hindu traditions, there are pockets of Christianity, and ancient animistic customs are visible almost everywhere.
I kept the phone at my ear for a long moment, almost expecting his voice to return, drumming and bagpip-ing, overwhelming the animistic buzz of the telephone.
Eleanora lay in a spell, trapped by the symbolism of the animistic rite as the drumbeats increased and the singing shifted through patterns of atonality.