quickenedadj.
/ˈkwɪk(ə)nd/, U.S. /ˈkwɪk(ə)nd/ 1. Made living or lively; animated, revived, stimulated.
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the world > life > source or principle of life > giving of life > [adjective] > brought to life
quickened1589
enlivened1640
quickening1870
the mind > will > motivation > [adjective] > inciting or instigating > incited or instigated
spighta1387
cited1538
incitate1568
quickened1589
fomented1613
enact1843
spurred1868
irritated1875
1589 Digest Decisions Justiciary Court in Dict. Older Sc. tongue M. 5 at Quikkined Scho..being than with quickined child.
1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion iii. 44 Not from the quickned Mine.
1660 Char. Italy to Rdr. sig. A iv Some Squeamish Zealot, who..is become a meer lump of quickened Care.
1730 H. Wharton Some Manifestations & Comms. of Spirit 294 That Knowledge which opens its self unto the raised quickened Mind.
1752 R. Erskine Christ’s Love-suit Reinforced & Repeated 52 He speaks to their Hearts..enabling the quickened Soul to rise actively..at his Call.
1894 H. Drummond Lowell Lect. Ascent of Man 389 Courtship, with its vivid perceptions and quickened emotions.
1954 J. Baldwin Go tell it on Mountain (1963) i. 51 The wound..must, John felt, with a quickened sympathy towards Roy..have been very painful.
2003 Daily Variety 19 Dec. 13 We listen with quickened attention to the questions it [sc. a play] slyly raises.
2. Accelerated; made faster or more rapid.
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the world > movement > rate of motion > [adjective] > of or relating to increase in speed > having increased speed
quickened1595
accelerated1837
revved-up1931
speeded-up1962
1595 W. S. Lamentable Trag. Locrine i. ii. sig. B3v Cruell death hastneth his quickned pace, To dispossesse me of my earthly shape.
1709 M. Prior Poems Several Occasions 244 Emma wings her Way, With quicken'd Pace repairing forc'd Delay.
1798 S. T. Coleridge Poems 263 With light And quickened footsteps thitherward I tend.
1854 J. S. C. Abbott Napoleon (1855) I. xxxii. 496 The inhabitants of Lombardy felt the foreign yoke only in the quickened circulation of wealth, the increased vent for industry.
1889 Harper's Mag. July 244/1 The quickened circulation, the deep breathing, the buoyant, gay feeling which lively exercise always brings.
1924 Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. 35 638 The longitudinal profiles of those streams will record a knickpoint at the headward limit of quickened erosion.
1990 R. Smith Nemesis xii. 113 He was playing a tape of a Bach toccata and fugue, music of a rhythm and a speed to match his quickened heartbeat.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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