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animus
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Animus \An"i*mus\, n.; pl. Animi. [L., mind.] Animating spirit; intention; temper.
nimus furandi [L.] (Law), intention of stealing.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1820, "temper" (usually in a hostile sense), from Latin animus "rational soul, mind, life, mental powers; courage, desire," related to anima "living being, soul, mind, disposition, passion, courage, anger, spirit, feeling," from PIE root *ane- "to blow, to breathe" (cognates: Greek anemos "wind," Sanskrit aniti "breathes," Old Irish anal, Welsh anadl "breath," Old Irish animm "soul," Gothic uzanan "to exhale," Old Norse anda "to breathe," Old English eðian "to breathe," Old Church Slavonic vonja "smell, breath," Armenian anjn "soul"). It has no plural. As a term in Jungian psychology for the masculine component of a feminine personality, it dates from 1923.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The basic impulses and instincts which govern one's actions. 2 A feeling of enmity, animosity or ill will. 3 (context Jungian psychology English) The masculine aspect of the feminine psyche or personality.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Animus may refer to:
ANIMUS is a world fusion music & dance ensemble based in the Philadelphia, PA area. Led by Bill Koutsouros, Animus has been creating and performing original World music since 1994.
Animus is primarily an instrumental ensemble utilizing culturally diverse musical concepts and traditions from ancient to modern alike. Elements of Greek, Blues, Middle Eastern, Jazz, Spanish, Funk, Latin, Rock, Indian, Klezmer, African music can be found in Animus' music. Animus' instrumentation includes: Bouzouki, Acoustic & Electric Guitar, Oud, Doumbek, Conga, Bongo, Acoustic & Electric Bass (instrument), Drum Kit, Djembe, Accordion, Clarinet, Ney, Recorder, Percussion, Vocals, Saxophone, Zurna, Tabla, Electronic keyboard, Zills
Animus performs at private events, corporate events, charity events, festivals and various music venues. Animus has performed at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, World Cafe Live and many other fine venues in and around the Philadelphia area.
Animus has been nominated for best Roots/ World Music Performer 2000 - 2002 and Best Local Band 2006 by The Philadelphia City Paper Choice Awards. Animus has won 3rd place for Best Best World Music Song: The Opus (Mediterranean Dreams) and Best World Music Album: The Movements by the 2009 Just Plain Folks Music Organization International Music Awards, the largest awards ceremony of its kind representing indie artists from all over the globe.
Independent music label Animusmusic has released Animus CDs on CD Baby, iTunes, Rhapsody (online music service) and more.
In the World of Greyhawk campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game, an Animus is an undead monster created through the use of both arcane and divine magic. They are unique to the Great Kingdom and its successor states.
Animi retain all skills and powers that they possessed in life (unless a deity forbids it) and also attain other powers from their transformation. All animi possess immense strength, and can spread fear by their touch. They also gain the power to command undead, and can paralyze by gazing into a target's eyes. An Animus can also mentally dominate living creatures and implant suggestions into their minds.
Among the most important powers of an animus is its regeneration powers. An animus can only be destroyed totally by being cremated or dissolved in acid.
Unique among undead, animi are affected by disease. However, as the animus is already dead, no disease can be fatal or terminal to an animus.
- Redirect List of Marvel Comics characters: A#Animus
Category:Marvel Comics supervillains
Animus is an electronic academic journal of philosophy and the humanities based at the Grenfell Campus, Memorial University of Newfoundland. It was established in 1996 and appears annually. The current editors are Ken Jacobsen, David Peddle, Neil Robertson, Kenneth Kierans, and Eli Diamond. Animus is abstracted and indexed in the Philosopher's Index.
Usage examples of "animus".
The change of animus to anima would lead to an immediate political and social and economic upheaval.
Especially if they were of the anima, and enemies not only of the governing class but of the entire animus.
Second, the males of animus had the magic, and the females of anima had magic.
That was the point: only a woman of the ruling class of the anima could have any power against a man of the animus, and if she turned out to be such a woman, she would be deemed an enemy, and the despots would do their best to kill her immediately.
The Megaplayers were the ones most likely to be able to reverse the animus, establish the anima, and so change the culture of Oria and free the anchor of the hostile spell which prevented the main party from returning to the Virtual Mode.
Because, she replied in pictures, she believed that the worlds were becoming decadent under the anima, without much vigor, and she thought it would be more interesting under the animus.
Nolite hos vestro auxilio exspoliare, qui vestrae salutis causa suum periculum neglexerunt, nec stultitia ac temeritate vestra aut animi imbecillitate omnem Galliam prosternere et perpetuae servituti subicere.
The press said it looked bad because his Pepperdine position had been funded by Richard Mellon Scaife, whose funding of the Arkansas Project was not yet public knowledge, but who was widely recognized as an extreme right-winger with an animus toward me.
The Anima is the archetypal woman in the psyche of every man, and the Animus is the archetypal man in the psyche of every woman.
But, what to the future of the great Republic is more important, there is great danger of our people under-estimating the bitter animus and terrible malignity to the Union and its defenders cherished by those who made war upon it.
Sapientia et magnitude animi, qua omnes res humanae tenues et pro nihilo putantur, et in cogitando vis quaedam ingenii, et ipsa eloquentia admirationis habet non minus, jucunditatis minus.
Tantis subito difficultatibus obiectis ab animi virtute auxilium petendum videbat.
At tanta militum virtus atque ea praesentia animi fuit, ut, cum undique flamma torrerentur maximaque telorum multitudine premerentur suaque omnia impedimenta atque omnes fortunas conflagrare intellegerent, non modo demigrandi causa de vallo decederet nemo, sed paene ne respiceret quidem quisquam, ac tum omnes acerrime fortissimeque pugnarent.
Sunt enim aliae virtutes, quae videntur in moribus hominum, et quadam comitate ac beneficentia positae: aliae quae in ingenii aliqua facultate, aut animi magnitudine ac robore.
Less pleased with the learned reading than at the opportunity to begin a correspondence with someone who might help me in my plan of escape (which I had already sketched out in my head), I opened the book as soon as Lawrence was gone, and was overjoyed to find on one of the leaves the maxim of Seneca, 'Calamitosus est animus futuri anxius', paraphrased in six elegant verses.