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ˈvivifying, ppl. a.
[f. prec. + -ing2.]
1. That vivifies or animates physically; life-giving, quickening.
1635Heywood Hierarchy vi. 374 The second Adam, sleeping in a vivifying death. 1671J. Webster Metallogr. viii. 127 That vivifying and incombustible sulphur that is Natures true fire and agent. 1707Curios. in Husb. & Gard. 59 The vivifying Juice, with which the Earth is impregnated. 1776Priestley in Phil. Trans. LXVI. 231 In other places..he explodes the doctrine of a vivifying spirit in the air. 1799Monthly Rev. XXX. 570 The vivifying action of the atmosphere. 1828H. Steuart Planter's G. (ed. 2) 321, I have repeatedly tried it on all sorts of subjects,..and its vivifying powers have proved extraordinary in every instance. 1836Penny Cycl. V. 246/2 The monads, and the vivifying animalcules of flowering plants. 1871Tyndall Fragm. Sci. (1879) II. xii. 275 The vivifying gas cannot penetrate to the centre of the film.
†b. Of medicines: Restorative. Obs.
1665Manley Grotius' Low C. Wars Pref., Whose Aid was not onely as a Hand to uphold, but a vivifying Medicine to a fainting Body. 1727Swift Further Acc. E. Curll Wks. 1755 III. i. 160 That all our members..be provided with a sufficient quantity of the vivifying drops, or Byfield's sal volatile. 1762Goldsm. Cit. W. lxviii, It may sometimes happen that..a countryman who cannot read, dies without ever hearing of the vivifying drops.
2. That vivifies spiritually or mentally; imparting interest or energy.
1768Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) I. 45 That vivifying ingredient which gives life and vigour to our motives. 1770Burke Pres. Discont. Wks. 1842 I. 134 Without it,..the people cannot long enjoy..the vivifying energy of good government. 1809–10Coleridge Friend (ed. 3) III. 85 The vivifying influences of the altar, the censer, and the sacrifice. 1838Prescott Ferd. & Is. (1846) III. xiv. 105 The vivifying impulse of patriotic sentiment. 1884Athenæum 7 June 722/2 Human beings..cannot dispense with some such vivifying element in their religion.
3. vivifying ink, a liquid which brings out what has been written in sympathetic ink.
1823J. Badcock Dom. Amusem. 42 Soak a double paper in the vivifying ink. |