exanimous

Meanings

adjectiveexanimous (comparative more exanimous, superlative most exanimous)

obsoletelifeless; dead
those exanimous and moribund bodies
1805, Samuel Latham Mitchill, editor, The Medical Repository

From Latin exanimus, exanimis; ex (“out, without”) + anima (“life”).

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