Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Inanimate

Inanimate , transitive verb

[Prefix in- in (or intensively) + animate.]

To animate. [Obsolete] — Donne

Inanimate , adjective

[Latin inanimatus; pref. in- not + animatus animate.]

Not animate; destitute of life or spirit; lifeless; dead; inactive; dull; as, stones and earth are inanimate substances.
Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves. — Byron