(adjective) : ex-ănĭmis, e, and ex-ănĭmus, a, um (cf. Wagner ad Verg. A. 4, 8; the latter form common in the plur., of which the former has only exanimes, nom. and acc.), anima
* Lifeless, dead (mostly postAug.; not in Cic. and Caes.; cf.: inanimis, exanimatus, mortuus).
* Lit.
* Form exanimis: (columba) Decidit exanimis,Verg. A. 5, 517; cf. id. ib. 5, 481: ut exanimem labentem ex equo Scipionem vidit,Liv. 25, 34 fin.: aliquamdiu jacuit,Suet. Caes. 82 et saep.: corpus,Ov. M. 14, 728; 10, 721; 13, 438; Plin. Ep. 3, 14, 2; Curt. 8, 11, 16; 9, 5, 8; Plin. 9, 21, 38, § 74: caro,id. 11, 33, 39, § 114; Quint. 4, 2, 13; cf. artus,Ov. M. 2, 336.—Poet.: gelidae exanimesque favillae,i. e. dead, extinguished,Stat. Th. 12, 418: hiems,i. e. calm, without wind,id. ib. 7, 88.
* Transf., half dead with fear, terrified, dismayed (very rare; only in form exanimis): audiit exanimis,Verg. A. 4, 672; cf. Hor. S. 1, 1, 76; 2, 6, 114; Liv. 1, 25, 6.

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