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Animosity

means animation, spirit, as the fire of a horse, called in Latin equi animosʹitas. Its present exclusive use in a bad sense is an instance of the tendency which words originally neutral have to assume a bad meaning. (Compare churl, villain.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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An gular
Angurvadel
Anima Mundi [the soul of the world]
Animal
Animal Spirits
Animals admitted into Heaven (The)
Animals in Christian Art
Animals sacred to special Deities
Animals (Symbolical)
Animals (The cries of)
Animosity
Animula
Anna (Donna)
Annabel
Anna Matilda (An)
Annates
Anne
Anne’s Fan (Queen)
Anne’s Great Captain
Annie Laurie
Annulo Dei figuram ne gestato (In)