单词 | vivific |
释义 | vivificadj. 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1920; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < adj.1551 |
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