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requicken, v.|riːˈkwɪk(ə)n|
[re- 5 a.]
To quicken again, reanimate, revive.
a. trans.1592G. Harvey Four Lett. iii. Wks. (Grosart) I. 197 Sweet Musike requickneth the heauiest spirites of dumpish Melancholy. 1607Shakes. Cor. ii. ii. 121 Then straight his doubled spirit Requickend what in flesh was fatigate. a1693Urquhart's Rabelais iii. xxv. 210 Which Body so raised up and requickned, will tell us the Sum of all you shall require of him. 1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) I. 114 The organs of assimilation..if once requickened are very apt to be unduly excited. 1879C. Rossetti Seek & F. 216 Our Redeemer bought with a great price His right to re-quicken us.
b. intr.1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xiii. §9. 715 Neither was the spirit of the English (after it began to requicken) idle elsewhere. 1618Bolton Florus Pref. B iij, Vnder the gouernment of Traian, their sinewes requicken. 1878Swinburne Poems & Ball. Ser. ii. Inferiæ 2 Spring, and the light and sound of things on earth Requickening.
Hence reˈquickened ppl. a.; reˈquickening vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1617Hieron Wks. II. 226 A renuing and a requickning of that heauenly life. 1850O. Winslow Inner Life v. 156 What will be some of the effects of a revived, requickened state of the spiritual life? 1861Lytton & Fane Tannhäuser 11 Awake Starts the requicken'd soul with all her powers. 1891Edin. Rev. July 212 A requickening form of Christian belief and practice. |