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revivify, v.|rɪˈvɪvɪfaɪ|
[ad. F. revivifier (16th c.), = Sp. and Pg. revivificar, It. re-, rivivificare, or late L. revīvificāre: cf. revivificate v.]
1. trans. To restore to animation or activity; to revive or reinvigorate; to put new life into.
1675Cocker Morals 53 Sleep..Revivifies the Brain, the Spirits chears. 1813Shelley Q. Mab vi. 22 Will not the universal Spirit e'er Revivify this withered limb of Heaven? 1863M. E. Braddon J. Marchmont II. i. 3 Last night's festivities seem to have revivified me. 1883H. Wace Gosp. & its Witnesses v. 102 We..can..revivify the nervous forces of life by galvanic currents.
transf.1762–71H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Paint. (1786) IV. 6 The arts, when neglected, always degenerate. Encouragement must keep them up, or a genius revivify them. 1859Thackeray Virgin. i, I have..endeavoured to revivify the bygone times and people.
absol.1840Thackeray Paris Sk.-bk. (1872) 186 It is a food..which when it does not revivify, smothers. 1879H. George Progr. & Pov. x. v. (1881) 495 The struggle that must either revivify, or convulse in ruin, is near at hand.
2. To restore to life; to make alive again.
1744Stackhouse Hist. Bible Apparatus p. xii, That the gross Matter, which they saw, laid in the Grave.., should ever be rais'd..and revivify'd. 1824Lamb Elia Ser. ii. Blakesmoor in H―shire, A germ to be revivified. a1849J. C. Mangan Poems (1903) 85, I would spring up revivified, reborn, A living soul again. 1883H. Drummond Nat. Law in Spir. W. (1884) 86 The biologist cannot devitalise a plant or an animal and revivify it again.
3. Chem. = revive v. 11.
1727–38Chambers Cycl. s.v. Revivification, Gold, and other metals, it is said, may be recovered or revivified into running mercury. 1770Phil. Trans LX. 221 If..a degree of heat be applied greater than is necessary to..revivify a metal. 1890Thorpe Dict. Appl. Chem. I. 171 A description of the kilns most generally in use for revivifying char.
b. intr. = revive v. 2 b.
1727–38Chambers Cycl. s.v. Revivification, Having reduced it [mercury] into water,..into ashes, &c., it revivified, and resumed its first form. 1758Elaboratory laid open 211 The operation should not be too much prolonged; lest the quicksilver revivify, or reassume its fluid state.
Hence reˈvivifying vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1782H. Walpole Let. to Rev. Mr. Cole 21 June, Swelled unreasonably with large collops of old authors, most of whom little deserved revivifying. 1818Byron Ch. Har. iv. lv, Thy decay Is still impregnate with divinity, Which gilds it with revivifying ray. 1878Stevenson Inland Voy. 192 Even the showers of rain had a revivifying effect. |