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vivificate, v.|vɪˈvɪfɪkeɪt|
Also 5–7 viuificat(e, 6 vivifycate.
[ad. L. vīvificāt-, ppl. stem of vīvificāre (Tertullian, etc.; hence It. vivificare, Sp. and Pg. vivificar), f. vīv-us alive: cf. vivific a. and -ate3.]
1. trans. To give life to, to animate, to enliven or quicken; = vivify v. 1.
1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) I. 189 In the pleyne þer of is a pitte where thei ȝafe to viuificate the myndes of philosophres. a1500Colkelbie Sow 887 Lyk [fr]o sede sawin in erd mortificat Flouris mony fructis viuificat. 1547Boorde Brev. Health lxxxvi. 35 The herte dothe vivifycate all other members. 1565Harding Confut. ii. xiv. 109 b, God the Wordes owne body, that hath power to viuificate and quicken all thinges. 1609Bible (Douay) Ezek. xiii. 18 When they caught the soules of my people, they did vivificate their soules. 1653H. More Conject. Cabbal. 31 Even as God vivificates and actuates the whole world. 1675O. Walker, etc. Paraphr. St. Paul 161 The sensitive..soul or faculty continues meanwhile in the body..vivificating it. 1819H. Busk Vestriad i. 217 Whose blood vivificates thy veins.
†2. intr. To become endued with life. Obs.—1
1660Stanley Hist. Philos. ix. (1687) 551/2 This beam penetrates to the Abyss, and thereby all things vivificate.
Hence viˈvificating ppl. a.
a1688Cudworth Immut. Mor. iii. ii. §3. (1731) 89 The Compound..of the Body and a certain Vivificating Light, imparted from the Soul to it. |