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单词 vivific
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vivificadj.

/vɪˈvɪfɪk/
Forms: Also 1500s viuifike, 1600s–1700s vivifick.
Etymology: < Latin (post-classical) vīvificus, < vīvus living: see -fic suffix. So Old French and French vivifique, Spanish vivifico, Portuguese vivifico, Italian vivifico.
Life-giving, enlivening, vivifying.
ΘΚΠ
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
1551 S. Gardiner Explic. Catholique Fayth f. 13v Wherby they might vnderstand him verie God, whose fleshe..geuen spiritually to be eaten of vs..[is] viuifike and geueth life.
1669 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. I iii. iii. 324 Chrysostome cals it..a vivifick Energie.
1694 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 18 39 A Vivifick Spirit or Aura, generated out of the Blood by the Brain.
1709 T. Robinson Vindic. Mosaick Syst. 19 in Ess. Nat. Hist. Westmorland & Cumberland Light was the Active and Vivifick Principle of Generation.
1788 T. Taylor tr. Proclus Philos. & Math. Comm. I. 118 The zoogonic, or vivific goddess, pours through these into the universe, an inexplicable and efficacious power.
1809 R. Southey in Q. Rev. 1 194 There is, however, in all religious communities a vivacious and vivific principle not to be found in the same degree in political bodies.
1852 A. Ballou Spirit Manifest. i. 15 Matter inert and passive, spirit vivific and active.
1877 W. R. Cooper Short Hist. Egypt. Obelisks (1878) v. 25 [The name] ‘The Eternal Generator’ contains an allusion to the vivific power of Ra, as the creator of life.
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