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Jul 03, 2022 · (chiefly philosophy) The soul or animating principle of a living thing, especially as contrasted with the animus. [from 10th c.] 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, XXXVIII: [W]e cannot chuse but admire the exceeding vividness of the governing faculty or Anima of the Insect, which is able to dispose and regulate so the motive faculties, as to cause every ...