vitalizev.
/ˈvʌɪtəlʌɪz/, /ˈvʌɪtl̩ʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈvaɪdlˌaɪz/ 1. in extended use.1858 J. H. Bennet Nutrition ii. 43 The intellectual man..who has vitalized..his brain by brain exercise.
a. transitive. To give life or animation to (the body, etc.); to endow with vital force or principle.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > source or principle of life > vital principle > impart vital principle [verb (transitive)]
inspirea1382
inform1594
actuate1597
spirit1606
vitalize1678
staminate1720
1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. v. 784 By the Idol of the Soul Plotinus seems to mean, an Airy or Spirituous Body, Quickned and Vitalized by the Soul, adhering to it after death.
1813 T. Busby tr. Lucretius Nature of Things I. iii. 797 Seeds which now the body vitalise.
1846 J. Hudson in Rep. & Papers Bot. (Ray Soc.) 305 How does it happen that a cell is so vitalized as to be able to produce a phyton?
1868 W. Peard Pract. Water-farming xi. 113 Every year..millions of eggs are regularly vitalised and transmitted over the Continent.
b. Pathology. To excite activity in (an ulcer, etc.).
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > production of disease > make diseased [verb (transitive)] > excite activity in
vitalize1884
1884 M. Mackenzie Man. Dis. Throat & Nose II. 277 For the purpose..of ‘vitalizing’ the borders of an indolent ulcer within the nasal cavity.
2.
a. figurative. To make living or active; to infuse vitality or vigour into (something); to animate.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > carry on vigorously [verb (transitive)] > make lively > specifically a thing
animate1585
spirit1600
to breathe through ——1606
exagitate1621
ferment1667
vitalize1805
1805 J. Foster Ess. i. iv. 50 A malignant quality appears vitalized into a powerful demon.
a1853 F. W. Robertson Lect. (1859) 124 What he wanted was to vitalize the system—to throw into it not a Jewish, but a Christian feeling.
1873 J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets v. 111 The Greek genius was endowed with the faculty of distinguishing, differentiating, vitalizing, what the Oriental nations left hazy and confused and inert.
b. To put life into (a literary or artistic conception); to present or depict in a lifelike manner.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > representation in art > represent in art [verb (transitive)] > realistically or appropriately
naturalize1603
to strike off1821
vitalize1884
society > leisure > the arts > literature > art or occupation of writer or author > be the author of or write (a work) [verb (transitive)] > express in written work or write about > express realistically
actualize1848
vitalize1884
1884 Athenæum 8 Mar. 319/3 Lord Tennyson..always allows himself room not only to vitalize his characters, but to let them grow.
1907 Athenæum 16 Mar. 313/1 He is not an artist. He cannot vitalize his material.
Derivatives
ˈvitalized adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > source or principle of life > vital principle > [adjective] > animated by
self-lived1605
vitalized1843
1843 R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. xxvii. 350 The seminal fluid of the male is a highly vitalized product.
1868 W. Peard Pract. Water-farming xiii. 127 The largest quantity of this vitalised seed was sown in the rivers of France.
1874 H. R. Reynolds John the Baptist viii. 505 Those who..regard Christianity as an etherealized or vitalized morality.
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