or **Animate**, in a general sense, denotes something endowed with animal-life. It also imports a thing to be impregnated with vermin or animalcules.

**ANIMATED Horse-hairs.** See Horse-Hairs.

**ANIMATION** signifies the informing an animal body with a soul.—The different hypotheses of physicians and philosophers, concerning the time of animation, have had their influence on the penal laws made against artificial abortions; it having been made capital to procure miscarriage in the one state, while in the other it was only deemed a venial crime. The emperor Charles V. by a constitution published in 1532, put the matter on another footing; instead of the distinction of an animated and unanimated fetus, he introduced that of a vital and non-vital fetus, as a thing of more obvious and easy decision, and not depending on any system either of creation, traduction, or infusion. Accordingly a fetus is said, in a legal sense, to be animated, when it is perceived to stir in the womb; which usually happens about the middle of the term of gestation.