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▪ I. ˈquickening, n. rare—1.
= quicken n.2 So also ˈquickening-grass.
1765Museum Rusticum IV. 454 Stones, quickenings, and every other thing that may hinder the growth of the flax, should be removed. Ibid. 456 Quickening grass should not be taken up. 1765A. Dickson Treat. Agric. (ed. 2) 106 Of the first sort is the quickening-grass, or couch-grass.
▪ II. quickening, vbl. n.|ˈkwɪk(ə)nɪŋ|
[f. quicken v. + -ing1.]
a. The action of the vb. quicken, in various senses.
c1430Pilgr. Lyf Manhode ii. cviii. (1869) 116 He hadde with inne gret quiknyng of cole. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 11 b, For the..quyckenynge of theyr reason. 1577tr. Bullinger's Decades (1592) 45 Justification of life therefore is..a quickening or translating from death to life. 1626Naworth Househ. Bks. (Surtees Soc.) 237 To Eyst for iij quickinings,..xviijd. 1655H. Vaughan Silex Scint., Holy Commun. i, Nothing that is, or lives, But hath his Quicknings, and reprieves. 1748Phil. Trans. XLV. 132 After Quickening her Health became better. 1799G. Smith Laboratory I. Pref. 6 Quickening is a singular expression to be employed in gilding. 1874Green Short Hist. vii. §7. 419 The intellectual quickening of the age had now reached the mass of the people. 1890Billings Med. Dict. II. 424/2 Quickening.., first sensation of movement of the foetus in a pregnant woman, occurring generally in the first or second week of the fifth month. 1922Joyce Ulysses 377 Send us, bright one, light one, Horhorn, quickening and wombfruit. 1975Church Times 27 June 20/5 A foetus that had not reached the time of quickening (twelve to fourteen weeks old).
b. concr. That which quickens; hence, yeast, a quantity of yeast. dial.
1598Florio, Cremóre, yeast, barme, quickning. 1790Mrs. Wheeler Westmld. Dial. (1821) 81 Me mudder lent her a whicknin, an we wor bawn at brew.
▪ III. quickening, ppl. a.|ˈkwɪk(ə)nɪŋ|
[f. quicken v. + -ing2.]
That quickens, in senses of the vb.
1382Wyclif 1 Cor. xv. 45 The laste Adam [is made] in to a spirit quykenynge. 1531Frith Judgm. Tracy (1573) 80 Fayth is..the quickning power out of which all good fruites spring. 1590Spenser F.Q. i. v. 12 Quickning faith..The creeping deadly cold away did shake. 1674J. B[rian] Harv. Home Postscr. 53, I finisht have The first part of this quickning Text. 1799G. Smith Laboratory I. 89 A quickening water. Take one ounce of quicksilver, and as much aqua fortis [etc.]. 1805Wordsw. Prelude iv. 1 When quickening steps Followed each other. 1870H. Macmillan Bible Teach. Pref. 15 Bursting buds and quickening roots. |