vitalizingadj.
That vitalizes or endues with vitality; animating, invigorating.
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the world > life > source or principle of life > giving of life > [adjective]
life-giving1550
vivific1551
vivificative1575
vivificant1576
vital1590
informing1631
vivifical1632
vivifying1635
informative1642
animantative1655
enlivening1664
vivificatinga1688
animative1706
vitalizing1813
blood-giving1840
the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > refreshment or invigoration > [adjective]
cooling?c1425
comfortablec1440
refreshing1534
rousing1576
vegetant1576
reviving1579
refriscative1582
refrigerating1583
cordial1584
airy1591
freshing1591
animating1595
fertile1597
recreating1600
refective1611
refreshfula1614
comforting1623
refrigerant1626
erecting1654
cordialine1674
refocillating1675
corroboratinga1680
refectory1693
invigorating1694
restoring1697
freshful1734
enlivening1746–7
livelya1754
tonic1756
stimulatory1758
vivifying1768
energizing1786
stimulative1791
refreshening1807
vitalizing1813
stimulating1827
recuperative1843
invigorative1860
innerving1868
breezy1870
tonicizing1890
reparatory1893
1813 T. Busby in tr. Lucretius Nature of Things I. iii. Comm. p. xxvii The seeds..do not possess..any vitalizing quality.
1857 W. A. Miller Elements Chem. III. 742 The principal change is that described by Prout as the vitalizing action of the stomach.
1880 R. Browning Dramatic Idyls ii. 149 Not one flower-dust fell but straight its fall awoke Vitalizing virtue.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1920; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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